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Prov. 19:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dewa upon the grass.

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Hos. 14:5• ⁵I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. (Hos. 14:5)

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Prov. 16:14‑15• ¹⁴The fury of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.
¹⁵In the light of the king's countenance is life, and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain. (Prov. 16:14‑15)

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Prov. 20:2• ²The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. (Prov. 20:2)

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Prov. 28:15• ¹⁵A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people. (Prov. 28:15)

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Esther 7:8• ⁸And the king returned out of the palace garden into the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? The word went forth out of the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face. (Esther 7:8)

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Eccl. 8:4• ⁴because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou? (Eccl. 8:4)

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Dan. 2:12‑13• ¹²For this cause the king was irritated and very wroth, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
¹³And the decree went forth that the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to slay them. (Dan. 2:12‑13)

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Dan. 3:19‑23• ¹⁹Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
²⁰And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
²¹Then these men were bound in their hosen, their tunics, and their cloaks, and their garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
²²Forasmuch as the king's commandment was rigorous, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that had taken up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
²³And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. (Dan. 3:19‑23)

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Dan. 5:19• ¹⁹and for the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he exalted, and whom he would he humbled. (Dan. 5:19)

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Dan. 6:24• ²⁴And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces ere they came to the bottom of the den. (Dan. 6:24)

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Luke 12:4‑5• ⁴But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.
⁵But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear *him*. (Luke 12:4‑5)

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2 Sam. 23:4• ⁴And he shall be as the light of the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth. (2 Sam. 23:4)

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Psa. 72:6• ⁶He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. (Psa. 72:6)

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Hos. 14:5• ⁵I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. (Hos. 14:5)

• How much more fully may the words be applied to the coming King, the Lion of the tribe of Judah! When the great day of His wrath has come, how wretched will be the estate of all who know not His grace, which to the repentant soul is indeed like dew upon the grass! (“Proverbs Nineteen” by H.A. Ironside)

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The king’s displeasure is as the roaring of a lionc; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

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Strictly, "young lion," as Job 4.10, etc.; and so chs. 20.2; 28.1.