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 thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
• Prov 11:10When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
• Prov 28:28When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.
• Esth 8:15–17Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.
• Job 29:11–20For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
• Heb 11:37–38They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
• 2 Chr 7:10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
• 1 Chr 29:20–22Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!” All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
• 1 Kgs 17:3–24“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
• 1 Chr 16:7–36Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
• Luke 19:37–38As he was now getting near, 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 which they had seen,
• 1 Chr 15:25–28So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
• Jer 36:26The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
• 2 Chr 30:22–27Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
• Eccl 10:16Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
• 1 Sam 24:11Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
• 1 Kgs 19:3When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
• Eccl 10:5–6There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.
• Jer 5:1“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
• 1 Kgs 18:13Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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