Numbers 23:24

New American Bible - revised edition

Here is a people that rises up like a lioness, and gets up like a lion; It does not rest till it has devoured its prey and has drunk the blood of the slain.

Cross References

Genesis 49:27

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; mornings he devours the prey, and evenings he distributes the spoils.” Farewell and Death.

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s cub, you have grown up on prey, my son. He crouches, lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who would dare rouse him?

1 Kings 10:20

and twelve other lions standing there on the steps, two to a step, one on either side of each step. Nothing like this was made in any other kingdom.

2 Chronicles 9:18

The throne had six steps; a footstool of gold was fastened to the throne, and there was an arm on each side of the seat, with two lions standing next to the arms,

Psalm 17:12

Like lions eager for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

Proverbs 30:30

The lion, mightiest of beasts, retreats before nothing;

Isaiah 31:4

For thus says the Lord to me: As a lion or its young growling over the prey, With a band of shepherds assembled against it, Is neither dismayed by their shouts nor cowed by their noise, So shall the Lord of hosts come down to wage war upon Mount Zion, upon its height.

Daniel 2:44

In the lifetime of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed or delivered up to another people; rather, it shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and put an end to them, and it shall stand forever.

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared, who would not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who would not prophesy?

Nahum 2:11

Emptiness, desolation, waste; melting hearts and trembling knees, Churning in every stomach, every face turning pale!

Nahum 2:12

Where is the lionesses’ den, the young lions’ cave, Where the lion went in and out, and the cub, with no one to disturb them?

Zechariah 12:6

On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a brazier of fire in the woodland and like a burning torch among sheaves, and they will devour right and left all the surrounding peoples; but Jerusalem will again inhabit its own place.

Numbers 23:25

“Neither lay a curse on them nor bless them,” said Balak to Balaam.

Numbers 24:17

I see him, though not now; I observe him, though not near: A star shall advance from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel, That will crush the brows of Moab, and the skull of all the Sethites,

Deuteronomy 33:20

Of Gad he said: Blessed be the one who has made Gad so vast! He lies there like a lion; he tears the arm, the head as well.

Revelation 5:5

One of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. The lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed, enabling him to open the scroll with its seven seals.”