Bible Dictionary: The Lion: Criminals often Thrown To

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Daniel 6:7,16,24
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
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The Wicked Husbandmen.
... Great criminals are often blind to their own interests: their ... Nothing is more appalling
to criminals than to be ... his gentleness, and appears as the Lion of the ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xi the wicked husbandmen.htm

Joseph Attacked by the Archers
... their slave; the taunt, the jeer, did often wound his ... scorn even in the prison-house;
base criminals went away ... Doth the lion turn aside to rend each cur that ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/joseph attacked by the archers.htm

The Ancestral Home
... Better meet a lion robbed of her whelps than him ... writs, examining deeds, going to
arrest criminals, in the ... He often felt a merriment that not only touched the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/i the ancestral home.htm

The Era of Persecution
... young virgins to meet the lion's eye without ... to mythological subjects by compelling
criminals to take ... These often obtained certificates from the magistrates to ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/iii the era of persecution.htm

Creation's Groans and the Saints' Sighs
... be understood." However, dear friends, we have often found that ... are now no longer
treated as criminals condemned, but ... will come a time when the lion shall eat ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 14 1868/creations groans and the saints.htm

The Preface to the Commandments
... Grace in the saints is often as fire hid in the ... rescues souls out of the mouth of
the roaring lion. ... Sinners are criminals, they have offended God; and it would ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the ten commandments/1 3 the preface to the.htm

Homilies on the Statues.
... Creature, use of word, [872]411, n. Criminals, wretched appearance of at the bar,
[873]396. ... Laughter often leads to sin, [1463]442; how to be met, [1464]481. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/chrysostom/on the priesthood/homilies on the statues.htm

Chaldaean Civilization
... which represents a herdsman wrestling with a lion. ... own flesh and blood, and often
settled upon ... by creditors of their liberty, and criminals judicially condemned ...
/.../chapter iiichaldaean civilization.htm

the Legendary History of Egypt
... of which Ra appeared in the form of a cat or lion, and beheaded ... tells us of a piece
of wax which, on being thrown into the ... Arab historians often refer to them. ...
/.../chapter iii -the legendary history of.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... of the taxpayer, took money from the criminals for protecting ... artists and modern
draughtsmen have often neglected it ... representing him"such as a lion, a stag ...
/.../chapter iithe reaction against egypt.htm

Subtopics

Lion

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Lion of Divine Judgments

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Lion used for the Torture of Criminals

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Lion: Disobedient Prophet Killed By

Lion: Fierceness of

Lion: Instincts of, in Taking Prey

Lion: Kept in Captivity

Lion: Killed by Benaiah