Cross references

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear

is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

Proverbs 28:15 BSB

Proverbs 28:15 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Peter 5:8 (7 votes) and Matthew 2:16 (5 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Exodus 1 to Revelation 13.

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Which verses does Proverbs 28:15 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

  2. When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

  3. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

  4. A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

  5. The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.

  6. and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh. Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, …

  7. Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD. So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. …

  8. Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

  9. Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

  10. At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.

  11. Hosea 5:112 votes
  12. Hosea 13:82 votes

Which verses point to Proverbs 28:15?

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