Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

Cross References (10)

  • Proverbs 20:8 (5)

    A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.

  • Psalms 52:2–4 (3)

    Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

  • 2 Kings 10:6–7 (3)

    Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of

  • Psalms 101:5–7 (3)

    Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not

  • 1 Samuel 22:8–23 (3)

    Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the so

  • 1 Samuel 23:19–23 (2)

    Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the

  • 2 Samuel 3:7–11 (2)

    Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my

  • 1 Kings 21:11–13 (2)

    So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them

  • 2 Samuel 4:5–12 (2)

    Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of

  • Proverbs 25:23 (1)

    As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.