Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 29 connects to 10 cross-references. Proverbs on governance, discipline, and vision: when the righteous increase the people rejoice but when the wicked rule people groan. Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint. A servant pampered from childhood will in the end …
Other Translations
If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.
A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers <FI>are<Fi> wicked.
If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.
Cross References
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me …
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds …
Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt …
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made …
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against …
And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did …
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy …
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken …
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.