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 …

They were always destroying, and plundering, and carrying home the spoil, so that everyone was fattened with the plunder of the nations.

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…

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps The metaphor is still continued; and the kings of Assyria are compared …

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…