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Hosea 13:8
I will confront them like a bear deprived of her cubs, And I will tear open their chests; I will also devour them there like a lioness, As a wild animal would tear them to pieces.
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1 Samuel 16 18
Then one of the young men responded and said,“ Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is a skillful musician, a valiant mighty man, a warrior, skillful in speech, and a handsome man; and the Lord is with him.”
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Hebrews 11:32-34
And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
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Daniel 7:5
And behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they said this to it:‘ Arise, devour much meat!’
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Proverbs 17:12
Let a person meet a bear robbed of her cubs, Rather than a fool in his foolishness.
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1 Chronicles 11 25-1 Chronicles 11 47
Behold, he was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain the reputation of the first three; and David appointed him over his bodyguard.Now the mighty men of the armies were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,Hanan the son of Maacah and Joshaphat the Mithnite,Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,Jediael the son of Shimri and his brother Joha the Tizite,Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite,Eliel, Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
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2 Samuel 21 18-2 Samuel 21 22
Now it came about after this that there was war again with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck and killed Saph, who was among the descendants of the giant.And there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.And there was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty four in number; and he also had been born to the giant.When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, struck and killed him.These four were born to the giant at Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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Proverbs 28:15
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
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1 Samuel 23 23
So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he keeps himself hidden, and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
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2 Samuel 23 8-2 Samuel 23 9
These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite because of eight hundred who were killed by him at one time.And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there to battle and the men of Israel had withdrawn.
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1 Samuel 17 50
So David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and the stone: he struck the Philistine and killed him, and there was no sword in David’s hand.
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2 Samuel 23 20-2 Samuel 23 22
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done great deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.And he killed an Egyptian, an impressive man. Now the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name as well as the three mighty men.
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2 Samuel 15 18
Now all of his servants passed by beside him, and all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had come with him from Gath, passed by before the king.
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2 Samuel 23 16
So the three mighty men forced their way into the camp of the Philistines, and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and carried it and brought it to David. Yet he would not drink it, but poured it out as an offering to the Lord;
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2 Kings 2 24
When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty two of the boys.
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Judges 18:25
Then the sons of Dan said to him,“ Do not let your voice be heard among us, or else fierce men will attack you, and you will lose your life and the lives of your household.”
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1 Samuel 17 34-1 Samuel 17 36
But David said to Saul,“ Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a sheep from the flock,I went out after it and attacked it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth; and when it rose up against me, I grabbed it by its mane and struck it and killed it.Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
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2 Samuel 23 18
Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he swung his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name as well as the three.