Bear, The

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• 1 Samuel 17:34Torrey Attacks the flock in the presence of the shepherd

  And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

• 1 Samuel 17:36Torrey Miraculously killed by David

  Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.

• 1 Samuel 17:37Torrey Miraculously killed by David

  David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.

• 2 Samuel 17:8Torrey Particularly fierce when deprived of its young

  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 Kings 2:24Torrey Inhabits woods

  And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

• Proverbs 17:12Torrey Particularly fierce when deprived of its young

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

• Proverbs 28:15Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — Wicked rulers

  As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

• Isaiah 11:7Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The natural man

  And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

• Isaiah 59:11Torrey Growls when annoyed

  We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

• Lamentations 3:10Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Cunning

  He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

• Daniel 7:5Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Voracious

  And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

• Hosea 13:8Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God in his judgments

  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.