Proverbs 20:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
1 Kings 2:23
Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 16:14-15
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. …

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

(vv. 2)

See here, 1. How formidable kings are, and what a terror they strike upon those they are angry with. Their fear, with which (especially when they are absolute and their will is a law) they keep their subjects in awe, is as the roaring of a lion, which is very dreadful to the creatures he preys upon, and makes them tremble so that they cannot escape from him. Those princes that rule by wisdom and l…

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

(vv. 2)

2. (Compare Pr 19:12). Men who resist authority injure themselves (Ro 13:2).