Proverbs 29:2
When righteous people increase, the people rejoice, 1 but when a wicked person is the ruler, the people sigh. 1
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Esther 8:15Then Mordecai left the king's presence wearing royal clothes of blue and white, with a great crown of gold and a purple robe of fine linen, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
Proverbs 11:10When righteous people prosper, a city rejoices; 1 when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy. 1
Proverbs 28:28When the wicked arise, people hide themselves; 1 but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, 2 a kind of error that comes from a ruler: 1
Jeremiah 23:5See, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will raise up for David a righteous branch. 1 He will reign as king; he will act wisely and cause justice and righteousness in the land. 1
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he had been mocked by the learned men, was very angry. He sent and killed all the male children that were in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old and under, according to the time that he had determined exactly from the learned men.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:2
Miscellaneous Maxims. 1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Here, 1. The obstinacy of many wicked people in a wicked way is to be greatly lamented. They are often reproved by parents and friends, by magistrates and ministers, by the providence of God and by their own consciences, have had their sins set in order before them and fair warning given them of the consequences of them, but all in vain; they harden their necks. Perhaps they fling away,… Read the whole commentary →