Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Bible References

A lion's

Hosea 5:4
Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
Revelation 5:5
and one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath overcome to open the book and the seven seals thereof.

He stooped

Numbers 23:24
Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: 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 lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.

General references

Numbers 1:26
Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Joshua 15:20
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
Judges 1:2
And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
Job 38:40
When they couch in their dens, And abide in the covert to lie in wait?

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