Bible Verses About Lion

The throne had six steps, a back with a rounded top, arms on either side of the seat, two lions standing beside the arms,

and twelve more lions standing on each side of the six steps. Nothing like it had ever been made in any kingdom.

But after he had gone, a lion encountered the man of God on the road and killed him. His corpse lay there in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing next to it.

In time, people passed by and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing next to it; and they came and told about it in the city where the old prophet lived.

When the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard about it, he said, "It is the man of God who rebelled against the word of ADONAI; this is why ADONAI handed him over to the lion to tear him to pieces and kill him, in keeping with the word ADONAI spoke to him."

To his sons he said, "Saddle the donkey for me," and they saddled it.

He went and found his corpse lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing next to the corpse; the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

When they first came to live there, they did not fear ADONAI. Therefore ADONAI sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

So they said to the king of Ashur, "The nations you carried away and settled in the cities of Shomron are not familiar with the rules for worshipping the God of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them; and they are there, killing them; because they're not familiar with the rules for worshipping the God of the land."

"Moreover, raise a lament for the leaders of Isra'el;

say: 'What a mother you had a lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions and reared her cubs.

One of her cubs she singled out: he became a young lion, he learned to seize his prey, he became a man-eater.

The nations sounded an alarm against him; and he was caught in their pit. With hooks they dragged him off to the land of Egypt.

When she saw that she had been thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made a young lion of him.

He prowled among the lions, grew to be a young lion, learned to seize his prey and became a man-eater.

He raped their widows and destroyed their cities; the land and all in it were appalled at the sound of his roaring.

The nations set a snare for him from the provinces all around, they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit.

With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Bavel to imprison him in a fortress, so that his roar would be heard no more on the mountains of Isra'el.

So the king gave the order, and they brought Dani'el and threw him into the lion pit. The king said to Dani'el, "Your God, whom you are always serving, will save you."

A stone was brought to block the opening of the pit, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, so that nothing concerning Dani'el could be changed.

Then the king returned to his palace. He spent the night fasting and refusing to be entertained, as sleep eluded him.

Early in the morning, the king got up and hurried to the lion pit.

On approaching the pit where Dani'el was, the king cried in a pained voice to Dani'el, "Dani'el, servant of the living God! Has your God, whom you are always serving, been able to save you from the lions?"

Then Dani'el answered the king, "May the king live forever!

My God sent his angel to shut the lions' mouths, so they haven't hurt me. This is because before him I was found innocent; and also I have done no harm to you, your majesty."