Numbers 23:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

As a great

He shall

Revelation 19:11

General references

Numbers 1:28

Job 38:40

Proverbs 30:30

Bible References

As a great

“God brings him out of Egypt,
He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.

He will devour the nations who are his adversaries,

And will crush their bones in pieces,
And shatter them with his arrows.

“Judah is a lion’s whelp;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.

He couches, he lies down as a lion,

And as a lion, who dares rouse him up?

Of Gad he said,

“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;
He lies down as a lion,
And tears the arm, also the crown of the head.

He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.

The lion which is mighty among beasts
And does not

retreat before any,

For thus says the Lord to me,
“As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey,
Against which a band of shepherds is called out,
And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise,
So will the Lord of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill.”

A lion has roared! Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?

and one of the elders *said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.”

He shall

“I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near;
A star shall come forth from Jacob,

A scepter shall rise from Israel,

And shall crush through the forehead of Moab,

And tear down all the sons of Sheth.

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
In the morning he devours the prey,
And in the evening he divides the spoil.”

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.

The remnant of Jacob
Will be among the nations,
Among many peoples

Like a lion among the beasts of the forest,

Like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
Which, if he passes through,

Tramples down and tears,

And there is none to rescue.

“From them will come the cornerstone,
From them the tent peg,
From them the bow of battle,
From them every ruler, all of them together.

“In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.

General references

Of the sons of Issachar, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

When they crouch in their dens
And lie in wait in their lair?

The lion which is mighty among beasts
And does not

retreat before any,