Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions? Great indeed must be the desolation that would call f…

The figure of the lion appears so frequently on the Assyrian monuments that we may perhaps suppose it to have been a national emblem. The metaphor …

You will remember how Mr. Layard took out of the ruins at Nineveh those immense lions that now stand in the British Museum.

They were the ver…

Here the Prophet triumphs over the Assyrians because they thought that the city Nineveh was remote from every danger. Just as lions, who fear nothi…

Where [is] the dwelling of the lions ?
&c.] Of the kings of Assyria, comparable to lions for their strength, cou…

The kings of Assyria had long been terrible and cruel to their neighbors, but the Lord would destroy their power.

Many plead as an excuse fo…