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
The king ought to be feared as the roaring of a lion; whoso provoketh him unto anger, offendeth against his own soul.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, and can have no right of the law. For why? They follow the doctrines of men.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
A ranging
Proverbs 17:12
It were better to come against a she Bear robbed of her whelps, than against a fool in his foolishness.
2 Kings 2:24
And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came two bears out of the wood and tare forty two of the boys.
Hosea 13:8
I will come upon them as a she bear, that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break that stubborn heart of theirs. There will I devour them as a lion: yea the wild beast shall tear them.
So
Exodus 1:14
and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.
1 Samuel 22:17
Then said the king unto his footmen that stood about him, "Turn and slay the priests of the LORD, both because their hand is with David and because they knew when David fled and showed it not to me." But the servants of the king would not move their hands, to run upon the priests of the LORD.
2 Kings 15:16
The same time, Menahem destroyed Tappuah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah - because they opened not to him - he smote, and rent all the women with child.
2 Kings 21:16
And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
Esther 3:6
and thought it too little to lay hands only on Mordecai: for they had showed him the nation of Mordecai. Wherefore, he sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus and were of the nation of Mordecai.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.