Genesis 49:9
Yehudah is the cub of an aryeh (lion); 1 from the prey, beni (my son), thou hast gone up; 1 he stooped down, he couched like an aryeh, 1 and like a lioness; who shall rouse him? 1
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Numbers 23:24See, the people shall rise up as a lioness, 1 and lift up himself as an ari; 1 he shall not lie down until he devours the prey, 1 and drinks the dahm of the slain.
1 Kings 10:20And twelve arayim (lions) stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps; there was not the like made in any mamlakhot (kingdoms).
Ezekiel 19:5Now when she saw that in vain she had waited, 1 and her tikvah (hope) was lost, 1 then she took another of her cubs, 1 and made him a strong lion. 1
Hosea 5:14For I will be unto Ephrayim like a lion, 1 and as a great lion to the Bais Yehudah; 1 I, even I, will tear and go away; 1 I will carry off, and there will be no one rescuing. 1
1 Corinthians 15:24Then HaKetz when Moshiach gives over the Malchut Hashem to G-d, even Elohim Avinu, + 15:24 Dan 2:44; 7:13-14,27 after He has abolished all Misrah and Shilton and Gevurah.
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 →