Revelation 5:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

Weep

John 20:13

The lion

Genesis 49:9

Numbers 24:9

Hebrews 7:14

The root

Romans 15:12

Hath

Revelation 1:1

Revelation 6:1

General references

Exodus 37:23

Judges 1:2

Revelation 11:16

Bible References

Weep

Thus says the Lord,
“Restrain your voice from weeping
And your eyes from tears;
For your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord,
“And they will return from the land of the enemy.

When the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her, and said to her, “Do not weep.”

Now they were all weeping and lamenting for her; but He said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”

But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

And they *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She *said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”

The lion

“Judah is a lion’s whelp;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.

He couches, he lies down as a lion,

And as a lion, who dares rouse him up?

“He couches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares rouse him?

Blessed is everyone who blesses you,

And cursed is everyone who curses you.”

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

The root

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things

for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,
And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When I will raise up for David a righteous

Branch;

And He will reign as king and act wisely
And do justice and righteousness in the land.

concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh,

Again Isaiah says,
“There shall come

the root of Jesse,

And He who arises to rule over the Gentiles,

In Him shall the Gentiles hope.”

Hath

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John,

Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.”

General references

He made its seven lamps with its snuffers and its trays of pure gold.

The Lord said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”

And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,