2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai went on to say, “You know your father and his men – they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. ¹  Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.

Jud 18:25; 1Sa 16:18; 1Sa 17:34-36,50; 1Sa 23:23; 2Sa 15:18; 2Sa 21:18-22; 2Sa 23:8,9,16,18,20-22; 2Ki 2:24; 1Ch 11:25-47; Pr 17:12; Pr 28:15; Da 7:5; Ho 13:8; Heb 11:32-34

¹ tc The LXX (with the exception of the recensions of Origen and Lucian) repeats the description as follows: “Just as a female bear bereft of cubs in a field.”