The prophet continues the metaphor; this lion is the king of Assyria. Did tear in pieces; formerly did fall upon his neighbour nations, broke their strength, and robbed their treasuries and store-houses, and broke them in pieces. For his whelps; the young brood of the Assyrian royal family. Lionesses; queens, concubines, or ladies in the Assyrian court. Filled his holes; his treasuries, magazines, and royal seats, called dens in a decorum to the speech he had used. And his dens; ingeminating what was before spoken. With ravin; spoils which his ravenous mind and hand could lay hold on; all was prey that he could take.
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Nahum 2:12
12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.