“Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.”
When the lioness sees that her hope is lost through the imprisonment of the first cub, she takes another of her cubs and makes him a strong young lion. The lioness's response to the first cub's captivity demonstrates maternal instinct and dynastic persistence: even as one heir is lost, another is prepared to assume the throne. This represents the succession of Jehoiakim to replace his deposed brother.
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