Proverbs 29:12

A ruler who heeds lies surrounds himself with wicked officials. It warns that leaders who welcome falsehood corrupt those who serve them.

Cross-references · 10

• Prov 20:8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
• 2 Kgs 10:6–7Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
• Ps 101:5–7Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
• 1 Sam 22:8–23Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”
• Ps 52:2–4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
• 2 Sam 4:5–12Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap.
• 2 Sam 3:7–11Meanwhile, Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
• 1 Kgs 21:11–13So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
• 1 Sam 23:19–23Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
• Prov 25:23As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

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