Genesis 49:9
A lion's whelp [is] Judah, For prey, my son, thou hast gone up; He hath bent, he hath crouched as a lion, And as a lioness; who causeth him to arise?
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Numbers 23:24Lo, the people as a lioness riseth, And as a lion he lifteth himself up, He lieth not down till he eateth prey, And blood of pierced ones doth drink.'
1 Kings 10:20and twelve lions are standing there on the six steps, on this [side] and on that; it hath not been made so for any kingdom.
Ezekiel 19:5And she seeth, that stayed — perished hath her hope, And she taketh one of her whelps, A young lion she hath made it.
Hosea 5:14For I [am] as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I — I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer.
1 Corinthians 15:24then — the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless 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 →