37 Bible Verses about Lions

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Daniel 6:7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and satraps, and counselors and governors, will counsel together to set up a statute of the kingdom, and to make strong an interdict that whoever shall seek a request from any God and man even to thirty days, except from thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

Judges 14:5

And Samson will go down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they will come even to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared at his meeting.

1 Kings 13:24-28

And he will go, and a lion will find him in the way and kill him: and his corpse will be cast in the way, and the ass standing by it., and the lion standing by the corpse. And behold, men passing by, and they will see the corpse cast in the way, and the lion standing by the corpse: and they will come and speak in he city where the prophet, the old man, dwelt in it And the prophet that brought him back from the way will hear, and say, It is the man of God who resisted the mouth of Jehovah, and Jehovah will give him to the lion, and he will break him, and he will kill him according to the word of Jehovah which he spake to him.read more.
And he will speak to his sons, saying, Saddle for me the ass. And they will saddle him. And he will go and find his corpse cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the corpse: the lion ate not the carcass and brake not the ass.

1 Kings 20:36

And he will say to him, Because thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah, behold thee going from me, and the lion striking thee. And he will go from beside him, and the lion will find him and strike him.

Daniel 6:24

And the king said, and they brought these men that ate up Daniel piece meal, and cast into the lion's den, them, their sons, and their wives; and they not down to the bottom of the den even till the lions had power over them, and they broke all their bones in pieces.

1 Samuel 17:34-37

And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock. And I went forth after him, and I smote him, and I delivered from his mouth: and he arose upon me and I seized upon his beard, and I struck him and killed him. Also the lion and the bear thy servant struck: and this uncircumcised of the rovers was as one of them, for he God. upbraided the ranks of the livingread more.
And David will say, Jehovah who delivered me from the hand of the lion and from the hand of the bear, he will deliver me from the hand of this rover. And Saul will say to David, Go, and Jehovah shall be with thee.

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

Hebrews 11:33

Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought justice, attained the promises, shut up the mouths of lions,

Job 10:16

And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.

Genesis 49:9

Judah, a lion's whelp; from the green leaf, my son, thou didst go up: bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up?

Psalm 10:9

He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net

Psalm 17:12

His likeness as a lion will long for the prey, and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Lamentations 3:10

He is to me a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.

Jeremiah 12:8

My inheritance was to me as a lion in the forest; she gave upon me with her voice: for this I hated her.

Jeremiah 51:38

Together as lions shall they roar: they shook themselves as the lion's whelps.

Psalm 7:2

Lest he shall rend my soul as the lion, breaking in pieces and none delivering.

Psalm 35:17

O Jehovah, how long wilt thou see? Turn back my soul from their destruction, my only one from the lions.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her chiefs in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves; they laid not up for the morning.

Psalm 34:10

The young lions suffered want and were hungry: and they seeking Jehovah shall not want any good.

Job 4:10-11

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lion, and the teeth of the young lions were broken. The lion perished from failure of prey, and the sons of the lioness shall be scattered.

Psalm 58:6

God destroyed their teeth in their mouth: Jehovah broke down the young lions' grinders.

Psalm 91:13

Upon the lion and the asp, shalt thou tread: thou shalt tread down the young lion and the dragon.

Revelation 5:5

And one of the elders says to me, Weep not: behold, the Lion conquered, he being of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, to open the book, and to loose its seven seals.

Isaiah 11:6

The wolf dwelt with the lamb; and the panther will lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together, and a little boy leading with them.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed as one, and the lion and the ox shall eat straw, and the serpent, dust his bread. They shall not do evil, and they shall not destroy in all my holy mountain, said Jehovah

1 Kings 7:29

And upon the borders which were between the joinings, lions, oxen, and cherubs: and upon the joinings thus from above: and from beneath to the lions and to the oxen, wreaths, a work of descent

1 Kings 10:20

And twelve lions standing there upon the six steps, hence and thence: there was not made thus to all the kingdoms.

Judges 14:12-18

And Samson will say to them, I will propose to you an enigma: if announcing, ye shall announce it to me in seven days of the drinking, and ye find out, and I will give to you thirty wide garments and thirty exchanges of garments: And if ye shall not be able to announce to me, and ye give me thirty wide garments and thirty exchanges of garments: and they will say to him, Propose thine enigma and we will hear it. And he will say to them, Out of him eating came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they were not able to announce the enigma in three days.read more.
And it will be in the seventh day, and they will say to Samson's wife, Persuade thy man and he shall announce to us the enigma, lest we shall burn thee and thy father's house with fire: did ye not call to us to possess us? And Samson's wife will weep upon him, and will say, Thou only hatedst me and lovedst me not: thou didst propose an enigma to the sons of my people, and to me thou didst not announce it. And he will say to her, Behold, to my father and to my mother I announced it not, and shall I announce to thee? And she will weep upon him seven days which were to them of the drinking: and it will be in the seventh day, and he will announce to her, for she urged him: and she will announce the enigma to the sons of her people. And the men of the city will say to him in the seventh day before the sun will go down, What is sweet above honey? and what is strong above the lion? and he will say to them, Unless ye ploughed with my heifer ye found not out my enigma.

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Animals » Lions » Sheep

Genesis 30:32

I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire.

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and thy new oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep thou shalt give to him.

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

2 Chronicles 7:5

And king Solomon will sacrifice a Sacrifice of oxen, twenty and two thousand; and sheep, a hundred and twenty thousand. And the king and all the people will consecrate the house of God.

Animals » Lions » Characteristics of

Deuteronomy 33:22

And to Dan he said, Dan a lion's whelp: he shall spring forth from Bashan.

Judges 14:18

And the men of the city will say to him in the seventh day before the sun will go down, What is sweet above honey? and what is strong above the lion? and he will say to them, Unless ye ploughed with my heifer ye found not out my enigma.

2 Samuel 17:10

And he also the son of strength whose heart according to the heart of the lion, melting, will melt away: for all Israel knew that thy father is mighty, and the sons of strength which are with him.

Job 10:16

And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.

Psalm 17:12

His likeness as a lion will long for the prey, and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Animals » Lions » Swine

Leviticus 11:7

And the swine, for this cleaving the cloven hoof and dividing, divided the cloven hoof, and it will not excite rumination; it is unclean to you.

Isaiah 65:4

Dwelling among the graves, and they will lodge among the watchers, eating swine's flesh, and broth of unclean things in their vessels.

Isaiah 66:17

They consecrating themselves and cleansing themselves in the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse; together shall they perish, says Jehovah

Matthew 7:6

Ye should not give the holy thing to dogs neither should ye cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and having turned, should rend yon.

More verses: Luke 15:15 2 Peter 2:22

Animals » Lions » Mules

2 Samuel 13:29

And Absalom's boys will do to Amnon as Absalom commanded. And all the king's sons will rise up and ride each upon his mule and flee.

2 Samuel 18:9

And Absalom will meet before the servants of David, and Absalom rode upon the mule, and the mule will go under the thicket of the great oak, and his head will lay hold upon the oak, and he will be given between the heavens and between the earth; and the mule which was under him passed by.

Psalm 32:9

Ye shall not be as the horse, as the mule, not understanding: with bit and curb to stop his youth, not drawing near to thee.

1 Kings 1:33

And the king will say to them, Take with you the servants of your lord and cause Solomon my son to ride upon the mule which is to me, and bring down to Gihon:

Zechariah 14:15

And thus shall be the smiting of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the ass, and all the cattle which shall be in those camps, as this smiting.

Animals » Lions » Rams, used in sacrifices

Genesis 15:9

And he will say to him, Take to me a heifer of three, and a goat of three, and a ram of three, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.

Genesis 22:13

And Abraham will lift up his eyes, and will see and behold a ram behind, being held in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham will come and take the ram and bring it for a burnt offering instead of his son.

Exodus 29:15

And the one ram thou shalt take; and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ram.

Leviticus 5:15

When a soul shall cover transgression and sin in erring from the holy things of Jehovah; and he brought his trespass to Jehovah, a blameless ram from the sheep, by thy estimation of shekels of silver, by the shekel of the holy place, for the trespass.

Numbers 5:8

And if not to the man a kinsman to give back the transgression to him, the transgression being given back to Jehovah, to the priest; besides the ram of expiations, it shall be expiated by it for him.

Animals » Lions » Unicorn

Numbers 23:22

God bringing them out of Egypt; as the swiftness of the buffalo to him.

Deuteronomy 33:17

The honor to him the first-born of the bullock, his horns the horns of the unicorn: with them he will thrust the peoples together to the extremity of the earth: these the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasseh

Job 39:9

Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy stall?

Psalm 29:6

And he will cause them to leap as a calf; Lebanon and Sirion as the son of buffaloes.

Isaiah 34:7

And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the strong ones; and their land was drunk from blood, and from fat shall their dust be made fat

Animals » Lions » General references to

1 Samuel 17:34

And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock.

Judges 14:5

And Samson will go down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they will come even to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared at his meeting.

1 Kings 13:24

And he will go, and a lion will find him in the way and kill him: and his corpse will be cast in the way, and the ass standing by it., and the lion standing by the corpse.

Daniel 6:19

At that time the king will rise in the dawn in the morning, and in haste he departed to the lion's den.

Animals » Lions » Wolves, a type of the wicked

John 10:12

But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.

Acts 20:29

For I know this, that there shall come in after my departure grievous wolves to you, not sparing the flock.

Animals » Lions » Mice

Isaiah 66:17

They consecrating themselves and cleansing themselves in the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse; together shall they perish, says Jehovah

Leviticus 11:29

This being unclean to you among the creeping, creeping upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the lizard according to its kind;

1 Samuel 6:4

And they will say, What the trespass that we shall turn back to him? And they will say, The number of the princes of Philisteim, five gold tumors, and five gold mice: for one smiting upon them all and upon your princes.

Animals » Lions » Vipers, poisonous serpents

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of quadrupeds of the south: into the land of straits and distress, the lioness and the lion from them, the viper and the burning flying they will lift up upon the shoulder of young asses, their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, for a people who shall not profit

Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall kill him.

Isaiah 59:5

They plundered vipers' eggs, and they will weave spiders webs: he eating from their eggs shall die, and being crushed, it shall break forth a viper.

Animals » Lions » Pygarg

Deuteronomy 14:5

The stag, and the roe, and the fallow-deer, and the roe-buck, and the antelope, and the mountain goat, and the gazelle.

Animals » Lions » Lizards

Leviticus 11:30

The shrew mouse, and the chameleon, and the salamander, and the snail and the mole.

Animals » Lions » Weasel

Leviticus 11:29

This being unclean to you among the creeping, creeping upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the lizard according to its kind;

Lions » Fierceness of

Hosea 13:8

I will fall upon them as a bear bereaved, and I will rend the enclosure of their heart, and devour them there as a lion: the beast of the field shall cleave them asunder.

Jeremiah 49:19

Behold, as the lion he shall come up from the excellency of Jordan against the habitation of strength: for I will wink, I will cause him to run from her: and who the chosen I shall appoint to her? for who like me? and who shall testify for me? and who this shepherd which shall stand before me?

Proverbs 22:13

The slothful one said, A lion without; I shall be slain in the midst of the broad places.

Jeremiah 50:44

Behold, as a lion he will come up from the excellency of Jordan to the habitation of strength: for I will wink; I will cause them to run away from her: and who the chosen I shall appoint to her? for who like me? and who shall arraign me? and who that shepherd who shall stand before me?

Job 4:10

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lion, and the teeth of the young lions were broken.

Lions » Symbolical » Margin

Daniel 7:4

The first as a lion, and the wings of an eagle to it; I was seeing even till its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and upon its feet it was caused to stand as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

Revelation 5:5

And one of the elders says to me, Weep not: behold, the Lion conquered, he being of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, to open the book, and to loose its seven seals.

Revelation 13:2

And the wild beast which I saw was like a panther, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.

Revelation 9:17

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them sitting upon them, having fiery coats-of-mail, and of deep purple, and sulphurous: and the horses' heads as lions' heads; and out of their mouths went forth fire and smoke and sulphur.

Ezekiel 1:10

And the likeness of their face, the face of a man and the face of a lion, to the right, to these four: and the face of an ox from the left to these four; and the face of an eagle to these four.

Lions » Instincts of, in taking prey

Psalm 17:12

His likeness as a lion will long for the prey, and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Nahum 2:12

The lion tore in pieces the sufficiency of his whelps, and strangling for his lionesses; and his holes shall be filled with the prey, and his dens with that torn in pieces.

Lamentations 3:10

He is to me a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.

Psalm 10:9

He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net

Amos 3:4

Will the lion roar in the forest and not tearing in pieces for him? will the young lion give his voice from his cave if he took nothing?

Lions » Figurative » Of a ruler's anger

Jeremiah 5:6

For this, a lion from the forest struck them, a wolf of the deserts will destroy them, the panther watched over their cities: every one going forth from thence shall be torn in pieces; for their transgressions were multiplied, their turnings away were strong.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath growling as the young lion, and his acceptance as dew upon the grass.

Hosea 5:14

For I as the lion to Ephraim, and as the young lion to the house of Judah I, I will rend and go away; I will take away and none delivering.

Lions » Strength of

Proverbs 30:30

The lion strong among cattle, and he will not turn back from the face of all;

Isaiah 38:13

I set till the morning, as the lion thus will he break all my bones: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.

Joel 1:6

For a nation came up upon my land, strong, and no number; his teeth the teeth of a lion, and a biter's teeth of the lioness to him.

Lions » Used for the torture of criminals

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

Daniel 6:16-24

At that time the king said, and they brought Daniel and cast into the den of the lions; the king answered and said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest to him continually, he will set thee free. And one stone was brought and set upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his signet ring, and with the signet ring of his nobles, that the will shall not be changed upon Daniel. Then the king departed to his temple and passed the night fasting: and he brought not his concubines before him, and his sleep fled from him. read more.
At that time the king will rise in the dawn in the morning, and in haste he departed to the lion's den. And in his drawing near to the den he cried to Daniel with a strong voice, the king answered and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, thy God whom thou servest to him continually, is he able to set thee free from the lion's den? Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever. My God sent his messenger and shut the mouth of the lions, and they hurt me not, for the cause that innocence was found to me; and also before thee, O king, I did no hurt. At that time the king rejoiced greatly for him, and to Daniel he said to be taken up from the den. And Daniel was taken up from the den, and any hurt was not found upon him, for he trusted in his God. And the king said, and they brought these men that ate up Daniel piece meal, and cast into the lion's den, them, their sons, and their wives; and they not down to the bottom of the den even till the lions had power over them, and they broke all their bones in pieces.

Daniel 7:12

And the rest of the beasts they took away their power: and length in life was given to them for a season and time.

Lions » The roaring of

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of the king growling as the young lion: he overflowing against him sinned against his soul.

Lions » Symbolical

Isaiah 29:1

Wo to Ariel, Ariel, the city David encamped in! add ye year upon year; the festivals shall run their circle.

Genesis 49:9

Judah, a lion's whelp; from the green leaf, my son, thou didst go up: bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up?

Lions » Lair of, in the jungles

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion came up from his thicket, and destroying, he broke up the nations; he went forth from his place to set thy land for a desolation; thy cities shall be laid waste from none inhabiting.

Jeremiah 25:38

He forsook his booth as the young lion: for their land was for a desolation from the face of the burning of him oppressing, and from the face of the burning of his anger.

Lions » Killed by » David

1 Samuel 17:34

And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock.

1 Samuel 17:36

Also the lion and the bear thy servant struck: and this uncircumcised of the rovers was as one of them, for he God. upbraided the ranks of the living

Lions » Twelve statues of, on the stairs leading to solomon's throne

1 Kings 10:19-20

Six steps to the throne, and the head rounded to the throne from its back parts: and hands hence and thence upon the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the hands. And twelve lions standing there upon the six steps, hence and thence: there was not made thus to all the kingdoms.

Lions » Sent as judgment upon the samaritans

2 Kings 17:25-26

And it will be in the beginning of their dwelling there, they will not fear Jehovah; and Jehovah will send against them lions, and they will be killing among them. And they will say to the king of Assur, saying, The nations which thou carriedst into exile, and thou wilt set in the cities of Shomeron, knew not the judgment of the God of the land, and he will send among them lions, and behold them slaying them because they knew not the judgment of the God of the land.

Lions » Disobedient prophet killed by

1 Kings 13:24-28

And he will go, and a lion will find him in the way and kill him: and his corpse will be cast in the way, and the ass standing by it., and the lion standing by the corpse. And behold, men passing by, and they will see the corpse cast in the way, and the lion standing by the corpse: and they will come and speak in he city where the prophet, the old man, dwelt in it And the prophet that brought him back from the way will hear, and say, It is the man of God who resisted the mouth of Jehovah, and Jehovah will give him to the lion, and he will break him, and he will kill him according to the word of Jehovah which he spake to him. read more.
And he will speak to his sons, saying, Saddle for me the ass. And they will saddle him. And he will go and find his corpse cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the corpse: the lion ate not the carcass and brake not the ass.

Lions » The bases in the temple ornamented by mouldings of

1 Kings 7:29

And upon the borders which were between the joinings, lions, oxen, and cherubs: and upon the joinings thus from above: and from beneath to the lions and to the oxen, wreaths, a work of descent

1 Kings 7:36

And he will open, upon the cheeks of its hands and upon its borders, cherubs, lions, and palm-trees, according to the nakedness of each, and wreaths round about

Lions » Samson's riddle concerning

Judges 14:18

And the men of the city will say to him in the seventh day before the sun will go down, What is sweet above honey? and what is strong above the lion? and he will say to them, Unless ye ploughed with my heifer ye found not out my enigma.

Judges 14:14

And he will say to them, Out of him eating came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they were not able to announce the enigma in three days.

Lions » Parable of

Ezekiel 19:1-9

And thou, lift thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, And say, What thy mother? a lioness: between lions she lay down, in the midst of young lions she brought up her whelps And she will bring up one of her whelps: it was a young lion, and it will learn to rend the prey eating man. read more.
And the nations will hear concerning him; in their pit he was taken, and they will bring him with hooks to the land of Egypt And she will see that waiting her hope perished, and she will take one of her whelps setting him a young lion. And he will go about in the midst of the lions; he was a young lion, and he will learn to tear in pieces the prey, eating man. And he knew their palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land will be desolate and its fulness from the voice of his roaring. And the nations will give against him round about from the provinces, and they will spread their net upon him, being taken in their pit And they will give him in a prison with hooks, and they will bring him to the king of Babel: they will bring him into fastnesses so that his voice shall no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

Lions » Killed by » Benaiah

2 Samuel 23:20

And Benaiah son of Jehoida, son of a living man great of works, from Kabzeel, he struck two lions of god of Moab: and he went down and struck a lion in the midst of a well in the day of snow.

Lions » Killed by » Saints

Hebrews 11:33

Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought justice, attained the promises, shut up the mouths of lions,

Lions » Killed by » Samson

Judges 14:5-9

And Samson will go down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they will come even to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared at his meeting. And the spirit of Jehovah will fall suddenly upon him, and he will rend him as rending a kid, and nothing whatever in his hand: and he announced not to his father and to his mother what he did. And he will go down and speak to the woman, and she will be right in the eyes of Samson. read more.
And he will turn back after days to take her, and he will turn aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, an assembly of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. And he will break it off in his hands, and going, will go and eat, and he will go to his father and to his mother, and will give to them, and they will eat: and he announced not to them that from the body of the lion he broke off the honey.

Lions » An unnamed person killed by

1 Kings 20:36

And he will say to him, Because thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah, behold thee going from me, and the lion striking thee. And he will go from beside him, and the lion will find him and strike him.

Lions » Figurative » Of divine judgments

Isaiah 15:9

For the waters of Dimon were filled with blood: I will put additions upon Dimon, to the escaping of Moab, lions, and to the rest of the land.

Lions » Figurative » Of satan

Lions » King of beasts

Micah 5:8

And the remnant of Jacob was among the nations in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he passed through, and he trod down and pulled in pieces, and none delivering.

Lions » Proverb of

Ecclesiastes 9:4

For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion.

Lions » Kept in captivity

Lions » Illustrative » Of God in executing judgments

Lamentations 3:10

He is to me a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.

Hosea 13:8

I will fall upon them as a bear bereaved, and I will rend the enclosure of their heart, and devour them there as a lion: the beast of the field shall cleave them asunder.

Hosea 5:14

For I as the lion to Ephraim, and as the young lion to the house of Judah I, I will rend and go away; I will take away and none delivering.

Isaiah 38:13

I set till the morning, as the lion thus will he break all my bones: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.

Lions » Illustrative » Of cruel and powerful enemies

Jeremiah 49:19

Behold, as the lion he shall come up from the excellency of Jordan against the habitation of strength: for I will wink, I will cause him to run from her: and who the chosen I shall appoint to her? for who like me? and who shall testify for me? and who this shepherd which shall stand before me?

Isaiah 5:29

The roaring to him as the lion, and he roared as the young lions: and they shall groan and shall lay hold of the prey, and it shall escape, and none delivering.

Jeremiah 51:38

Together as lions shall they roar: they shook themselves as the lion's whelps.

Lions » God's power exhibited in restraining

1 Kings 13:28

And he will go and find his corpse cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the corpse: the lion ate not the carcass and brake not the ass.

Daniel 6:27

Setting free and delivering, and working signs and wonders in the heavens and upon the earth, that set free to Daniel from the hand of the lions.

Lions » God provides for

Psalm 104:21

The young lions roaring for prey, and to seek from God their food.

Psalm 104:28

Thou wilt give to them, they will gather up: thou wilt open thy hand, they will be filled with good.

Job 38:39

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? and wilt thou fill up the life of the young lions?

Lions » Attacks the sheepfolds

1 Samuel 17:34

And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock.

Micah 5:8

And the remnant of Jacob was among the nations in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he passed through, and he trod down and pulled in pieces, and none delivering.

Amos 3:12

Thus said Jehovah: As the shepherd will deliver from the mouth of the lion two legs, and part of an ear, thus shall the sons of Israel be delivered dwelling in Shomeron in the extremity of a tribe, or in Damascus under a roof.

Lions » Illustrative » Of imaginary fears of the slothful

Proverbs 22:13

The slothful one said, A lion without; I shall be slain in the midst of the broad places.

Proverbs 26:13

The slothful one said, A lion in the way; a lion between the broad places.

Lions » Illustrative » (roaring of,) of a king's wrath

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath growling as the young lion, and his acceptance as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of the king growling as the young lion: he overflowing against him sinned against his soul.

Lions » Illustrative » Of brave men

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan beloved and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not separated: they were swift above eagles, they were strong above lions.

2 Samuel 23:20

And Benaiah son of Jehoida, son of a living man great of works, from Kabzeel, he struck two lions of god of Moab: and he went down and struck a lion in the midst of a well in the day of snow.

Lions » Described as » Superior in strength

Judges 14:18

And the men of the city will say to him in the seventh day before the sun will go down, What is sweet above honey? and what is strong above the lion? and he will say to them, Unless ye ploughed with my heifer ye found not out my enigma.

Proverbs 30:30

The lion strong among cattle, and he will not turn back from the face of all;

Lions » Disobedient prophet slain by

1 Kings 13:24

And he will go, and a lion will find him in the way and kill him: and his corpse will be cast in the way, and the ass standing by it., and the lion standing by the corpse.

1 Kings 13:26

And the prophet that brought him back from the way will hear, and say, It is the man of God who resisted the mouth of Jehovah, and Jehovah will give him to the lion, and he will break him, and he will kill him according to the word of Jehovah which he spake to him.

Lions » Attacks and destroys men

1 Kings 13:24

And he will go, and a lion will find him in the way and kill him: and his corpse will be cast in the way, and the ass standing by it., and the lion standing by the corpse.

1 Kings 20:36

And he will say to him, Because thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah, behold thee going from me, and the lion striking thee. And he will go from beside him, and the lion will find him and strike him.

Lions » Rends its prey

Deuteronomy 33:20

And to Gad he said, Blessed he enlarging Gad: he dwelt as a lion, and he tore up the arm, also the crown.

Psalm 7:2

Lest he shall rend my soul as the lion, breaking in pieces and none delivering.

Lions » Illustrative » Of persecutors

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

Lions » Illustrative » (tamed,) of the natural man subdued by grace

Isaiah 11:7

And the heifer and the bear shall feed together, and their young shall lie down; and the lion shall eat straw as the ox.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed as one, and the lion and the ox shall eat straw, and the serpent, dust his bread. They shall not do evil, and they shall not destroy in all my holy mountain, said Jehovah

Lions » Roars when seeking prey

Isaiah 31:4

For thus spake Jehovah to me, As the lion shall growl, and the young lion over his prey, when a fulness of shepherds shall be called against him, from their voice shall he not be terrified, and shall not he be humbled from their noise: thus shalt Jehovah of armies come down to war from mount Zion and for its hill.

Psalm 104:21

The young lions roaring for prey, and to seek from God their food.

Lions » Described as » Fearless even of man

Isaiah 31:4

For thus spake Jehovah to me, As the lion shall growl, and the young lion over his prey, when a fulness of shepherds shall be called against him, from their voice shall he not be terrified, and shall not he be humbled from their noise: thus shalt Jehovah of armies come down to war from mount Zion and for its hill.

Nahum 2:11

Where is the dwelling of the lions and that pasture for the young lions where the lion went, the lioness there, the lion's whelp, and none terrifying?

Lions » Universal terror caused by roaring of

Amos 3:8

The lion roared, who shall not be afraid? the Lord Jehovah spake, who shall not prophesy?

Jeremiah 2:15

Upon him the young lions roared, they gave their voice, they will set his land for a desolation: his cities were burned from not being inhabited.

Lions » Criminals often thrown to » Da 6:7

Lions » Greatness of its teeth alluded to

Joel 1:6

For a nation came up upon my land, strong, and no number; his teeth the teeth of a lion, and a biter's teeth of the lioness to him.

Psalm 58:6

God destroyed their teeth in their mouth: Jehovah broke down the young lions' grinders.

Lions » Described as » Fierce

Job 10:16

And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.

Job 28:8

The sons of pride trod it not, and the lion passed not by upon it.

Lions » Inhabits » Mountains

Song of Solomon 4:8

Thou shalt come with me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon: thou shalt go round about from the head of faith, from the head of Shenir and Hermon, from the dwellings of lions, from the mountains of panthers.

Lions » Illustrative » Of the tribe of gad

Deuteronomy 33:20

And to Gad he said, Blessed he enlarging Gad: he dwelt as a lion, and he tore up the arm, also the crown.

Lions » Described as » Majestic in movement

Proverbs 30:29-30

They three making good the step, and four, making good to go: The lion strong among cattle, and he will not turn back from the face of all;

Lions » Described as » Active

Deuteronomy 33:22

And to Dan he said, Dan a lion's whelp: he shall spring forth from Bashan.

Lions » Slain by » David

1 Samuel 17:35-36

And I went forth after him, and I smote him, and I delivered from his mouth: and he arose upon me and I seized upon his beard, and I struck him and killed him. Also the lion and the bear thy servant struck: and this uncircumcised of the rovers was as one of them, for he God. upbraided the ranks of the living

Lions » Canaan infested by

2 Kings 17:25-26

And it will be in the beginning of their dwelling there, they will not fear Jehovah; and Jehovah will send against them lions, and they will be killing among them. And they will say to the king of Assur, saying, The nations which thou carriedst into exile, and thou wilt set in the cities of Shomeron, knew not the judgment of the God of the land, and he will send among them lions, and behold them slaying them because they knew not the judgment of the God of the land.

Lions » Illustrative » Of Christ

Revelation 5:5

And one of the elders says to me, Weep not: behold, the Lion conquered, he being of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, to open the book, and to loose its seven seals.

Lions » Described as » Courageous

2 Samuel 17:10

And he also the son of strength whose heart according to the heart of the lion, melting, will melt away: for all Israel knew that thy father is mighty, and the sons of strength which are with him.

Lions » Slain by » Benaiah

2 Samuel 23:20

And Benaiah son of Jehoida, son of a living man great of works, from Kabzeel, he struck two lions of god of Moab: and he went down and struck a lion in the midst of a well in the day of snow.

Lions » Illustrative » Of boldness of saints

Lions » Slain by » Samson

Judges 14:5-6

And Samson will go down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they will come even to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared at his meeting. And the spirit of Jehovah will fall suddenly upon him, and he will rend him as rending a kid, and nothing whatever in his hand: and he announced not to his father and to his mother what he did.

Lions » Illustrative » Of the tribe of judah

Genesis 49:9

Judah, a lion's whelp; from the green leaf, my son, thou didst go up: bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up?

Lions » Illustrative » Of israel

Numbers 24:9

He bowed; he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up? Praised he praising thee, and cursed he cursing thee.

Lions » Inhabits » Thickets

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion came up from his thicket, and destroying, he broke up the nations; he went forth from his place to set thy land for a desolation; thy cities shall be laid waste from none inhabiting.

Lions » Inhabits » Forests

Jeremiah 5:6

For this, a lion from the forest struck them, a wolf of the deserts will destroy them, the panther watched over their cities: every one going forth from thence shall be torn in pieces; for their transgressions were multiplied, their turnings away were strong.

Lions » Conceals itself by day

Psalm 104:22

The sun shall rise, they will be gathered together, and in their dens they will lie down.

Lions » Illustrative » Of God in protecting his church

Isaiah 31:4

For thus spake Jehovah to me, As the lion shall growl, and the young lion over his prey, when a fulness of shepherds shall be called against him, from their voice shall he not be terrified, and shall not he be humbled from their noise: thus shalt Jehovah of armies come down to war from mount Zion and for its hill.

Lions » Illustrative » Of the devil

Lions » Described as » Voracious

Psalm 17:12

His likeness as a lion will long for the prey, and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Lions » Inhabits » Deserts

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of quadrupeds of the south: into the land of straits and distress, the lioness and the lion from them, the viper and the burning flying they will lift up upon the shoulder of young asses, their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, for a people who shall not profit

Lions » A swarm of bees found in the carcass of, by samson

Judges 14:8

And he will turn back after days to take her, and he will turn aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, an assembly of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

Lions » Often carries its prey to its den

Nahum 2:12

The lion tore in pieces the sufficiency of his whelps, and strangling for his lionesses; and his holes shall be filled with the prey, and his dens with that torn in pieces.

Lions » Lurketh for its prey

Psalm 10:9

He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net

Lions » Hunting of, alluded to

Job 10:16

And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.

Lions » Often perishes for lack of food

Job 4:11

The lion perished from failure of prey, and the sons of the lioness shall be scattered.

Lions » Characteristics of

Deuteronomy 33:22

And to Dan he said, Dan a lion's whelp: he shall spring forth from Bashan.

Judges 14:18

And the men of the city will say to him in the seventh day before the sun will go down, What is sweet above honey? and what is strong above the lion? and he will say to them, Unless ye ploughed with my heifer ye found not out my enigma.

2 Samuel 17:10

And he also the son of strength whose heart according to the heart of the lion, melting, will melt away: for all Israel knew that thy father is mighty, and the sons of strength which are with him.

Job 10:16

And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.

Psalm 17:12

His likeness as a lion will long for the prey, and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Lions » General references to

1 Samuel 17:34

And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock.

Judges 14:5

And Samson will go down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they will come even to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared at his meeting.

1 Kings 13:24

And he will go, and a lion will find him in the way and kill him: and his corpse will be cast in the way, and the ass standing by it., and the lion standing by the corpse.

Daniel 6:19

At that time the king will rise in the dawn in the morning, and in haste he departed to the lion's den.

Righteous » Compared with » Lions

Micah 5:8

And the remnant of Jacob was among the nations in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he passed through, and he trod down and pulled in pieces, and none delivering.

compared to Saints » Lions

Micah 5:8

And the remnant of Jacob was among the nations in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he passed through, and he trod down and pulled in pieces, and none delivering.

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Creatures Like Lions

Ezekiel 1:10

And the likeness of their face, the face of a man and the face of a lion, to the right, to these four: and the face of an ox from the left to these four; and the face of an eagle to these four.

Deliverance From Lions

Psalm 22:21

Save me from the mouth of the lion: and thou didst answer me from the horns of the high.

In Danger From Lions

Judges 14:5

And Samson will go down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they will come even to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared at his meeting.

Lions, Figurative Use Of

Genesis 49:9

Judah, a lion's whelp; from the green leaf, my son, thou didst go up: bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up?

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