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 the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
• 2 Kgs 10:6–7Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
• Ps 101:5–7I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
• 1 Sam 22:8–23that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
• Ps 52:2–4Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• 2 Sam 4:5–12The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
• 2 Sam 3:7–11Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
• 1 Kgs 21:11–13The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.
• 1 Sam 23:19–23Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
• Prov 25:23The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

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