Proverbs 14:28

WEB

²⁸In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

KJV

²⁸In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

BSB

²⁸A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

FBV

²⁸The glory of a king is the number of his subjects, for a ruler is nothing without them.

Extra References

1 Kings 4:20-21

²⁰Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ²¹Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

Exodus 1:22

²²Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

2 Kings 13:7

⁷For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them and made them like the dust in threshing.

2 Kings 10:32-33

³²In those days the LORD began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel ³³from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

1 Kings 20:27

²⁷The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats, but the Syrians filled the country.

Exodus 1:12

¹²But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.