Whether you believe its God’s word, a historical relic, or a load of hogwash, there’s no doubt that the Bible contains some interesting stuff. Like monsters, for example. All sorts of terrible creatures and mythical beasts can be found in its pages. Like…


10. The Behemoth
In Job, one of the Bible’s oldest books, the Behemoth is described as a gigantic, powerful creature that can only be tamed by God. His tail is so large that it ‘moves like a cedar.’ This description has led some Creationists to claim that Behemoth was in fact a Biblical-era dinosaur.

However, carbon dating aside, the creature is mentioned as having a navel, which would rule it out as an egg-hatched lizard. In Jewish tradition, the Behemoth is a primal earth-monster, a symbol of chaos. Less imaginative scholars have suggested that the Behemoth is simply a poetic description of a real giant creature, like a hippopotamus.

9. The First Beast
If there’s one place that’s good for finding Biblical monsters, it’s the book of Revelation. No one agrees on whether this book of ‘visions’ contains descriptions of future events, or symbolic representations of the past, but everyone agrees that it sure has a lot of monsters.

The ‘First Beast’ of Revelation, so called because it’s mentioned first and no one came up with a better name, is a monster with seven heads and ten horns that rises from the ocean. It also features the feet of a bear, the mouth of a lion, and the general appearance of a leopard. Theologians and Biblical scholars have interpreted this beast as symbolizing everything from the Papacy to the 1st Century Roman Emperor Nero.

8. The Second Beast
This beast, which unsurprisingly follows the first, rises up out of the earth. It has two horns and speaks ‘like a dragon.’ Personally, I’ve never heard a dragon speak, but I imagine it must be scary. This guy’s job is to perform false miracles that encourage people to worship the first beast.

It also allows the first beast to kill anyone who doesn’t worship it. Damn. Once again, interpretations are varied: it’s been described as a symbol for everything from the prophet Mohammed to the modern United States.

7. Unicorns
Unicorns are mentioned nine times in the King James Bible, a medieval translation that remains popular to this day: ‘Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with band in the furrow?’ the book asks.

Unfortunately, linguists have since discovered that the Hebrew word re’em, translated as ‘unicorn’ here, actually refers to the aurochs, a distant ancestor of the modern cow which went extinct in the 17th century. Which is a shame, because unicorns are far more interesting than slightly-larger-than-usual cows.

In fact, a whole bunch of ‘mythical creatures’ in the King James Bible are simply additions by medieval translators who were more interested in being poetic than in making sure their creatures existed.

The cockatrice, a rooster-headed dragon mentioned in the book of Isaiah, has been scaled down in more recent translations to ‘viper.’ Lilith, a female demon, has been downgraded to ‘screech owl’, and mentions of satyrs (half-man, half-goat creatures) have been changed to ‘goats.’ More linguistically accurate, maybe, but nowhere near as fun.

6. Abaddon’s Locusts
These guys are ruled by Abaddon, an angel of the bottomless pit whose name means ‘Destroyer.’ Because they appear in Revelation, they’re of course not satisfied with being normal locusts: instead, they resemble war horses, have the stinging tails of scorpions, the faces of men, long hair like a woman’s, and wear crowns of gold and armored breastplates.

Their scorpion’s tails are used to sting their victims, an experience that’s apparently so painful that ‘men shall seek death, and shall not find it.’ Ouch.

5. The 200 Million Horsemen
This epic army also appears in the visions of Revelation, although they’re not to be confused with the far more famous Four Horsemen, the guys who symbolize Death, War, Famine and Pestilence. But these riders aren’t to be messed with, either.

Their horses have the heads of lions, tails like serpents, and spit smoke, fire and brimstone out of their mouths. Eventually, they’re responsible for the deaths of a third of all mankind. The horsemen army is led by four fallen angels, which is never good.

4. Daniel’s Beasts
Like Revelation, the book of Daniel is largely made up of visions which are meant to symbolize real-world events. In one of these visions, Daniel sees no less than four monsters emerge from the sea: one is a lion with eagle’s wings, which is then transformed into a human-like creature and has its wings plucked off; one is a bear-like creature who is told......


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kingxsamz:
Nice comics...

You are still drowning in your illusion.

Faithful4real:


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kingxsamz:


I've noticed that you love quoting me...
I hope that you find whatever you're looking for.

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Yet it has no mentions of the only monsters that were real- dinosaurs.

Leviathan too

However from the book of Enoch, the Leviathan (the sea serpent) which was the likeness of Davy Jones gorgon in pirate of the Caribbean, the Leviathan was killed by 2 Giants (Nephilim), which was the offspring of the fallen angel Samazeel with his human wife

Jokerman:
Leviathan too

However from the book of Enoch, the Leviathan (the sea serpent) which was the likeness of Davy Jones gorgon in pirate of the Caribbean, the Leviathan was killed by 2 Giants (Nephilim), which was the offspring of the fallen angel Samazeel with his human wife

where did u read that bros

skyhighweb:
where did u read that bros

The book of Enoch... Use Google

skyhighweb:
where did u read that bros

You wrote an authoritative article like this about monsters in the Bible, yet you do not know the commonest of all, the Leviathan.
Just search Bible app na, it will bring out all places with the word Leviathan.
Then I'm sure Bible monsters are more than these you listed.

Jokerman:


The book of Enoch... Use Google

He doesn't need extra Biblical texts, Isaiah, Job and maybe some other have it. Second to the last chapter in Job gave detailed description about the monster.

light099:


You wrote an authoritative article like this about monsters in the Bible, yet you do not know the commonest of all, the Leviathan.
Just search Bible app na, it will bring out all places with the word Leviathan.
Then I'm sure Bible monsters are more than these you listed.



He doesn't need extra Biblical texts, Isaiah, Job and maybe some other have it. Second to the last chapter in Job gave detailed description about the monster.

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