Proverbs 14:28
In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 14 connects to 8 cross-references. Proverbs on human character and social life: the wisest of women builds her house but the foolish tears it down. In all toil there is profit but mere talk tends only toward poverty. The poor is disliked even by his …
Other Translations
In the multitude of people is the king’s glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
In the multitude of a people <FI>is<Fi> the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.
A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.
Cross References
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every …
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children …
And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel …
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of …
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making …
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for …
From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is …
In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;