3 He played with lions as with kids, and with bears as with lambs of the flock. (WEB)
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3 He got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate like a giant, and bound his warlike harness around him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword. (WEB) 4 He was like a lion in his deeds, and like a lion’s cub roaring for prey. (WEB) 5 He hunted and… (WEB)
Ezekiel 19:5–7
5 When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. 6 He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men. 7 He broke down their strongholds and…
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11 Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away? 12 The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill,…
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Testament of Judah 1:14–16
14 A leopard in Hebron leaped upon my dog, and I caught it by the tail, and hurled it on the rocks, and it was broken in twain (T12) 15 I found a wild ox feeding in the fields, and seizing it by the horns, and whirling it round and stunning it, I cast it from me and slew… (T12) 16 … (T12)
1 Samuel 17:33–35
33 But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” 34 David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lam…
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