Proverbs 28:12

Society flourishes when the righteous prevail but withers when the wicked rise to power. It shows the public impact of who holds influence.

Cross-references · 20

• Prov 29:2When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
• Prov 11:10When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
• Prov 28:28When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
• Esth 8:15–17And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
• Job 29:11–20When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
• Heb 11:37–38They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
• 2 Chr 7:10And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
• 1 Chr 29:20–22And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
• 1 Kgs 17:3–24Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
• 1 Chr 16:7–36Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
• Luke 19:37–38And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
• 1 Chr 15:25–28So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.
• Jer 36:26But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
• 2 Chr 30:22–27And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
• Eccl 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
• 1 Sam 24:11Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
• 1 Kgs 19:3And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
• Eccl 10:5–6There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
• Jer 5:1Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
• 1 Kgs 18:13Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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