Proverbs 19:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 19:12 —

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Cross-References

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Hosea 14:5
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Proverbs 16:14-15
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. …
Proverbs 20:2
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Psalms 133:3
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12)

This is to the same purport with what we had Prov. 16:14, 15, and the design of it is, 1. To make kings wise and considerate in dispensing their frowns and smiles. They are not like those of common persons; their frowns are very terrible and their smiles very comfortable, and therefore it concerns them to be very careful that they never frighten a good man from doing well with their frowns, nor ev…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. (Compare Pr 16:14, 15; 20:2). A motive to submission to lawful authority.