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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?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.   Genesis 49:9, 10 

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.   Deuteronomy 33:22 

For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.   2 Samuel 17:8 

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.   Job 4:11 

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.   Job 28:8 

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.   Proverbs 17:12 

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.   Jeremiah 51:38 

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.   Ezekiel 19:2-5 

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.   Hosea 13:8 

Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.   Nahum 2:11, 12 

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