LION

Passages on this topic · 81

• Genesis 49:9

  Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

• Judges 14:5

  Then went Samson down with his father and his mother to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared against him.

• Judges 14:6

  Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.

• Judges 14:7

  He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

• Judges 14:8

  After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

• Judges 14:9

  He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.

• Judges 14:14

  He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.

• Judges 14:18

  The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”

• 1 Samuel 17:34

  David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

• 1 Samuel 17:36

  Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”

• 2 Samuel 23:20

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.

• 1 Kings 7:29

  and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

• 1 Kings 7:36

  On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.

• 1 Kings 10:19

  There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

• 1 Kings 10:20

  Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.

• 1 Kings 13:24

  When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

• 1 Kings 13:25

  Behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

• 1 Kings 13:26

  When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to him.”

• 1 Kings 13:27

  He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.

• 1 Kings 13:28

  He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.

• 1 Kings 20:36

  Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.

• 2 Kings 17:25

  So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

• 2 Kings 17:26

  Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”

• Job 4:10

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

• Job 28:8

  The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

• Psalms 7:2

  lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

• Psalms 10:9

  He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

• Psalms 17:12

  He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

• Psalms 22:13

  They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

• Proverbs 19:12

  The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

• Proverbs 20:2

  The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

• Proverbs 22:13

  The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

• Proverbs 30:30

  The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn’t turn away for any;

• Ecclesiastes 9:4

  For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

• Isaiah 15:9

  For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.

• Isaiah 29:1

  Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

• Isaiah 38:13

  I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Jeremiah 2:15

  The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 4:7

  A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 5:6

  Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.

• Jeremiah 25:38

  He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger.

• Jeremiah 49:19

  “Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

• Jeremiah 50:17

  “Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

• Jeremiah 50:44

  Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”

• Lamentations 3:10

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

• Ezekiel 1:10

  As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an eagle.

• Ezekiel 10:14

  Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle.

• Ezekiel 19:1

  “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

• Ezekiel 19:2

  and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

• Ezekiel 19:3

  She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

• Ezekiel 19:4

  The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 19:5

  “‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

• Ezekiel 19:6

  He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

• Ezekiel 19:7

  He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

• Ezekiel 19:8

  Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.

• Ezekiel 19:9

  They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

• Daniel 6:16

  Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.

• Daniel 6:17

  A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

• Daniel 6:18

  Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

• Daniel 6:19

  Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.

• Daniel 6:20

  When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?

• Daniel 6:21

  Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever.

• Daniel 6:22

  My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.

• Daniel 6:23

  Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

• Daniel 6:24

  The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

• Daniel 7:4

  The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.

• Daniel 7:12

  As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

• Hosea 5:14

  For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

• Hosea 13:8

  I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

• Joel 1:6

  For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

• Amos 3:4

  Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

• Micah 5:8

  The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

• Nahum 2:12

  The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

• 2 Timothy 4:17

  But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

• Hebrews 11:33

  who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

• 1 Peter 5:8

  Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

• Revelation 4:7

  The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

• Revelation 5:5

  One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

• Revelation 9:8

  They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

• Revelation 9:17

  Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.

• Revelation 13:2

  The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.