Cross references

Proverbs 28:2

A land in rebellion has many rulers,

but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order.

Proverbs 28:2 BSB

Proverbs 28:2 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 45:5–8 (5 votes) and 1 Kings 16:8–29 (5 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 45 to Revelation 4.

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Which verses does Proverbs 28:2 point to?

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

  1. And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you. For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting. …

  2. In the twenty-sixth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah two years. However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. …

  3. Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways. When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly. …

  4. In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.

  5. In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria six months. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit. …

  6. In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned two years.

  7. In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer, and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword. …

  8. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. …

  9. For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water, the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder, …

  10. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

  11. Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Which verses point to Proverbs 28:2?

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