וְהָיָה֩ שְׁאֵרִ֨ית יַעֲקֹ֜ב בַּגּוֹיִ֗ם בְּקֶ֙רֶב֙ עַמִּ֣ים רַבִּ֔ים כְּאַרְיֵה֙ בְּבַהֲמ֣וֹת יַ֔עַר כִּכְפִ֖יר בְּעֶדְרֵי צֹ֑אן אֲשֶׁ֧ר אִם עָבַ֛ר וְרָמַ֥ס וְטָרַ֖ף וְאֵ֥ין מַצִּֽיל׃
E o resto de Jacó estará no meio de muitos povos, como orvalho da parte do SENHOR, como chuvisco sobre a erva, que não espera pelo homem, nem aguarda filpios de homens.
Rabbeinu Bahya
A comment by another Midrash claims that both Betzalel and Oholiov were craftsmen familiar with all aspects of the work that needed to be performed. Both were known as גור אריה, the former because he was a member of the tribe of Yehudah (Genesis 49,9), the latter seeing Moses had referred to the tribe of Dan by the same term in Deut. 33,22. The Temple has been compared to a lion (אריה) the shape of the sanctuary being long and narrow whereas its shape near the entrance (with the אולם) was broad in front. This is supported by Scripture in Isaiah 29,1 where the word Ariel is understood to be derived from Aryeh (compare Rashi on that verse). Just as the construction of the Tabernacle, the Temple, and the altar was symbolized by the lion, the punishment of the Jewish people when the Temples were destroyed were also linked to the image of the lion as we know from Jeremiah 4,7: “the lion has come up from his thicket, the destroyer of nations has set out.” Eventually, when the messianic period will be ushered in, our prophets again foretold that at that time Israel would be compared to the rising of the lion when they said (Micha 5,7) ”the remnant of Yaakov shall be among the nations in the midst of many people like a lion among beast of the wild.”