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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 grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. (Hos. 14:5)

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Prov. 16:14‑15• ¹⁴The wrath 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 favor is as a cloud of the latter rain. (Prov. 16:14‑15)

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

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

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Esther 7:8• ⁸Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. (Esther 7:8)

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Eccl. 8:4• ⁴Where the word of a king is, there 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 angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
¹³And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain. (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: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one 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 to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
²¹Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
²²Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took 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 majesty that he gave him, all people, 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 set up; and whom he would he put down. (Dan. 5:19)

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

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Luke 12:4‑5• ⁴And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
⁵But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto 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, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. (2 Sam. 23:4)

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Psa. 72:6• ⁶He shall come down like rain upon 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 grow 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.