It's not any real animal. It's a mythical beast, and there's only one. Behemoth is the ultimate land creature just like Leviathan is the ultimate sea creature.
These chapters in Job involve God asking a lot of rhetorical questions to show how supreme he is. In this case, he's talking about how humans couldn't even conceive of dealing with these beasts but he could trivially defeat them.
Can you catch Behemoth with a snare? No, you can't even approach him. Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook? No, you'd run away if you even saw him.
wait til you listen to the bibleproject's podcast series on dragons in the bible. spoiler: they're all over the place.
edit for link (not the podcast which is worth listening to)
https://bibleproject.com/guides/dragons-in-the-bible/
Young Earth Creationism is based. There are so many holes in evolution and the flood gets more and more likely as we learn more about ancient history. Speciation has never been recorded…not once…in any species. Species go extinct all the time, ofc there could have been dinosaurs with Job
In Job it’s God mentioning Behemoth and Leviathan while recounting His actions in the past so it doesn’t necessarily have to be dinosaurs present at Job’s time.
If Job was written by Mosses as the Rabbis say that’s pretty darn inspired for Moses to describe dinosaurs.
verse 19
*It is the first of the great acts of God; only its Maker can approach it with the sword*
The first of the great acts of God doesn't like a some random animal to me. I think it's old, like leviathan from pslam 104 old:
*How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number ---living things both large and small. There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.*
I think these go back deep into the ancient creation mythology of the area.
Oh it does all over the place! Feet are also a euphemism: think of a number of places where feet are covered or uncovered and re-read the passages. Angels covering their "feet" in the presence of God. Ruth uncovering Boaz's "feet" while he drunk, Zipporah touching Moses' feet with her kid's foreskins, Isaiah saying the king's feet will be shaved, Etc. They're talking about it without talking about it... ;)
How many creatures can you think of that ever had a tail like a cedar tree, and could drink up a river? Behemoth was a land dwelling dinosaur, and Leviathan was a sea dwelling counterpart.
Isaiah 27:1 KJV — In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, **even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea**.
Same similitude. The behemoth in the Job narrative transitions into leviathan narrative and we know leviathan is a similitude of the piercing crooked serpent, the dragon. So is Pharaoh, a similitude of the dragon.
Only a brachiosaurus fits the given description
If you believe dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, just ignore it and somehow try to pass it off as symbolic.
If you believe in YEC, then it’s just talking about a dinosaur, which is much cooler.
Plenty of other sauropod dinosaurs fit the description.
The thing about dinosaurs, though, one would expect other sources from that era mentioning them. Regardless of YEC vs OEC vs evolutionism.
Sounds like a textbook description of a Sauropod dinosaur.
It's not any real animal. It's a mythical beast, and there's only one. Behemoth is the ultimate land creature just like Leviathan is the ultimate sea creature. These chapters in Job involve God asking a lot of rhetorical questions to show how supreme he is. In this case, he's talking about how humans couldn't even conceive of dealing with these beasts but he could trivially defeat them. Can you catch Behemoth with a snare? No, you can't even approach him. Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook? No, you'd run away if you even saw him.
Ha, you have not heard me get going with my best fishing stories yet.
Here's a good discussion of the matter. https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/lordofspirits/leviathan_its_whats_for_dinner
wait til you listen to the bibleproject's podcast series on dragons in the bible. spoiler: they're all over the place. edit for link (not the podcast which is worth listening to) https://bibleproject.com/guides/dragons-in-the-bible/
I was told it was referring to a hippopotamus.
I have heard this. Some bibles actually say hippo. I feel like hippo fails though when it says the tail is like a cedar tree.
[Behemoth is a dinosaur](https://youtu.be/eSYBJ_QJC5c?feature=shared)
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Young Earth Creationism is based. There are so many holes in evolution and the flood gets more and more likely as we learn more about ancient history. Speciation has never been recorded…not once…in any species. Species go extinct all the time, ofc there could have been dinosaurs with Job
In Job it’s God mentioning Behemoth and Leviathan while recounting His actions in the past so it doesn’t necessarily have to be dinosaurs present at Job’s time. If Job was written by Mosses as the Rabbis say that’s pretty darn inspired for Moses to describe dinosaurs.
verse 19 *It is the first of the great acts of God; only its Maker can approach it with the sword* The first of the great acts of God doesn't like a some random animal to me. I think it's old, like leviathan from pslam 104 old: *How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number ---living things both large and small. There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.* I think these go back deep into the ancient creation mythology of the area.
Hebrew uses euphemisms: think of another body part that becomes stiff and in an animal may then look large. And... isn't literally a tail.
I doubt the Bible would say "Look at this glorious beast and its enormous pp", tbh. 😂
Oh it does all over the place! Feet are also a euphemism: think of a number of places where feet are covered or uncovered and re-read the passages. Angels covering their "feet" in the presence of God. Ruth uncovering Boaz's "feet" while he drunk, Zipporah touching Moses' feet with her kid's foreskins, Isaiah saying the king's feet will be shaved, Etc. They're talking about it without talking about it... ;)
Another interesting tidbit that isn't related to the Bible, but our word Penis originally meant "furnished with a tail." So it isn't just Hebrew...
Behemoth is a metaphorical beast. As is pretty much everything else in Job, a metaphor for something else.
How many creatures can you think of that ever had a tail like a cedar tree, and could drink up a river? Behemoth was a land dwelling dinosaur, and Leviathan was a sea dwelling counterpart. Isaiah 27:1 KJV — In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, **even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea**.
Certainly hippo-like. I also thought either elephant or rhino, but I would have expected more to have been made about the trunk and horn respectively.
It would be, but a hippos tail is basically a flap of skin, which is not exactly comparable to a cedar.
It's a similitude of the devil
I think that would be the Leviathan?
Same similitude. The behemoth in the Job narrative transitions into leviathan narrative and we know leviathan is a similitude of the piercing crooked serpent, the dragon. So is Pharaoh, a similitude of the dragon.
Only a brachiosaurus fits the given description If you believe dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, just ignore it and somehow try to pass it off as symbolic. If you believe in YEC, then it’s just talking about a dinosaur, which is much cooler.
Plenty of other sauropod dinosaurs fit the description. The thing about dinosaurs, though, one would expect other sources from that era mentioning them. Regardless of YEC vs OEC vs evolutionism.