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Unicorn:
Today: Something enormous. A huge animal, possibly a hippopotamus, described
in the Book of Job.
1611: ???.
Behemoth. Modern scholars don't spend much time thinking about this before they give
their interpretations, or they wouldn't make such striking errors. Some describe it as a
hippo, some as an elephant. Neither fits the description. The Bible states behemoth is
the largest of God's creatures; it must be larger than a blue whale, for that is the largest
creature today known. A hippo or elephant can't compare with size such as this.
The Bible says its tail is like a cedar. Elephants and hippos have thin tails. Some
footnotes replace tail with trunk, but even an elephant's trunk is more like a beech than a
cedar. Cedars were the material of choice for the huge beams in enormous palaces; they were big
trees! Behemoth must not be an elephant or hippo.
So, what is this enormous animal?
One theory is that it is an apatosaurus, perhaps the variety known as ultrasaurus.
Related Scriptures:
- Job 40:15 Eats grasses
- Job 40:16 Large belly, strong loins
- Job 40:17 Tail like a cedar tree
- Job 40:18 Heavy duty bones
- Job 40:19 Biggest thing God made
- Job 40:21 Lies in shade, swamp
- Job 40:23 Large stomach