Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion's cub. My son, 1 you have gone up from your victims. 1 He stooped down, he crouched like a lion, like a lioness. 1 Who would dare to awaken him? 1
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Numbers 23:24Look, the people rise like a lioness, 2 as a lion emerges and attacks. 1 He does not lie down until he eats his victim 2 and drinks the blood of what he has killed.”
1 Kings 10:20Twelve lions stood on the steps, one on each side of each of the six steps. There was no throne like it in any other kingdom.
Ezekiel 19:5Then she saw that although she had waited for his return, her expectation was now gone, so she took another of her cubs and raised him to become a young lion. 1
Hosea 5:14So I will be like a lion to Ephraim, 1 and like a young lion to the house of Judah. 1 I, even I, will tear and go away; 1 I will carry them off, 1 and there will be no one to rescue them. 1
1 Corinthians 15:24Then will be the end, when Christ will hand over the kingdom to God the Father. This is when he will abolish all rule and all authority and power.
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 →