Similitudes:
Genesis 49:9 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?
Numbers 23:24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Numbers 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Deuteronomy 33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Samson and the Lion: Judges 14:5-9
Samson’s riddle: Judges 14:18
1 Samuel (3) David relates his killing of a Lion to King Saul 1 Samuel 17:34-37
2 Samuel (3) Similitudes: 2 Samuel 1:23, 17:10
2 Samuel 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lion like men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
1 Kings (9) As statues: 1 Kings 7:29,36, 10:19-20
The disobedient man of God is slain by a Lion: 1 Kings 13:24-28
1 Kings 20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
2 Kings (2) Lions used as Punishment: 2 Kings 17:25-26
1 Chronicles (2) Lion like men: 1 Chronicles 11:22, 12:8
2 Chronicles (2) As statues: 2 Chronicles 9:18-19
Job (5) Similitudes:
Job 4:10-11 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
Job 10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 28:8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job 38:39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Psalm (11) Psalm 7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Psalm 10:9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psalm 17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalm 22:13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalm 22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Psalm 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Psalm 35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Psalm 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Psalm 104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
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