Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
A roaring
A ranging
Bible References
A roaring
Proverbs 20:2 A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.
Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
for he is determined to follow what is worthless.
for he is determined to follow what is worthless.
1 Peter 5:8
Be serious! Be alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.
A ranging
Proverbs 17:12 Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than a fool in his foolishness.
than a fool in his foolishness.
2 Kings 2:24
He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the children.
Hosea 13:8 I will attack them
like a bear robbed of her cubs
and tear open the rib cage over their hearts.
I will devour them there like a lioness,
like a wild beast that would rip them open.
like a bear robbed of her cubs
and tear open the rib cage over their hearts.
I will devour them there like a lioness,
like a wild beast that would rip them open.
So
Exodus 1:14
and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.
1 Samuel 22:17
Then the king ordered the guards standing by him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord because they sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they didn’t tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to execute the priests of the Lord.
2 Kings 15:16
At that time, starting from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were in it, and its territory. Because they wouldn’t surrender, he attacked it and ripped open all the pregnant women.
2 Kings 21:16
Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit. Consequently, they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.
Esther 3:6
And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.