Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 161:4

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 161:4

Another interpretation: "In the morning he shall devour the prey" (Genesis 49:27) - this is Saul, as it is written, "And Saul took the kingdom" (1 Samuel 14:47). "And at evening he shall divide the spoil" - "Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther" (Esther 8:7). Another interpretation: "In the morning he shall devour" - "The one lamb you shall offer in the morning" (Numbers 28:4). "And at evening he shall divide the spoil" - "And the second lamb you shall offer toward evening" (same verse). "And His secret is with the upright" (Proverbs 3:32) - everything the righteous do, they do by the Holy Spirit. When Jacob blessed the tribe of Judah, he blessed him with a lion, and he paired him against the kingdom of Babylon, as it is written, "The first was like a lion" (Daniel 7:4). By whose hand does the kingdom of Babylon fall? By the hand of Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. And Joseph he paired against the fourth kingdom, for it is a tradition in our hands that Esau falls only by the hand of the descendants of Rachel. The tribe of Levi he set against the kingdom of Greece, and the Hasmoneans were of the tribe of Levi. And Benjamin against the kingdom of Media, for Mordecai exacts punishment from it, since he was of the tribe of Benjamin.

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