...beautiful simile to illustrate the terror of the Babylonish monarch at the approach of Cyrus : " Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong; he shall flee from the victorious invaders to his city, as the lion...

...the prophet Jeremiah alludes, when speaking of Edom and Babylon in regard to the judgments of God. " He shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan" (Jer. xii. 5, xlix. 19, and 1. 44). The river is from 30 to 100 yards wide, and, during the summer,...

...from this jungle by the advancing waters is twice referred to in the prophecy just quoted: " Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong," xlix. 19, and L. 44. But we must confine our attention chiefly...

...the Dead Sea. The banks of the river are covered with a luxuriant growth of tiees and herbage, whicli shelter wild animals of various kinds ; but, in the...5.) Westward lay the Vale of Elah, where David, the youthful hero of Israel, slew the gigantic Goli'alh, who had "defied (he armies of the living God."...

...washed out of the covert by the overflowings of the river gave occasion to that allusion of Jeremiah, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan." - MaundreWs Aleppo. 370 Note 296, p. 275. — Like the wind of the xntth o'er a summer lute blowing....

...and his hands waxed feeble : anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong : but I will make them suddenly run away from her., and who is a...

...because of the fierceness of tho oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. Jer. xii v 19. Behold, n. And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flo against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from hen and who is a chosen...

...conclusion of infidels against the sacred writer. NUMBER OF PEOPLE COMPARED WITH THE EXTENT OF CANAAN. " HE shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan," is the grand imagery under which the Prophet describes the invading army. The brow of the lion is so...

...unto whom they trusted. 41. " Behold, a people shall come from the north," &c.] — So verse 3. 44. " He shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan," &c.] — See chapter xlix. 19. Behold the Babylonians shall come up, &c. 45. " Surely the least of...

...he tells us, once and again, why he thus quits his haunts, and whither he betakes himself: " Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong." Jer. xlix. This last expression (^fVN m3) should be rendered,...