Genesis 49:9

You are like a lion. It kills wild animals and comes back to its cave. It stretches out its legs and goes to sleep. We can't wake it up, because it is too dangerous.

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In The King James Version

Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

In Context

8Then Jacob spoke to his son Judah. “Judah,” he said, “your brothers will praise you. They will come and bow down to you, because you are strong. You will grab the people who hate you. You will hold them by the neck.

10Judah, you will be a ruler later. Your descendants will be rulers too. They will rule until the king comes here. People from other countries will come to him, bringing many things for him. And they will bow down to him, because they will know he is very great.

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:9-13

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the… Read the whole commentary →

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