THE WONDROUS MYTHICAL BEASTS APPEAR IN THE BIBLE NINE TIMES.
Numbers 24:8 | Deuteronomy 33:17 | Job 39:9-12 | Psalms 22:21 | Psalm 29:6 | Psalms 92:10 | Isaiah 34:7
WARNING: Imaginary beasts with single horns
CONTEXT: Because they occur in the Bible, fundamentalists insist (and can prove) that the single horned magical horse is real.
Many biblical scholars have pointed out that much of the Old Testament is a collection of mythological tales, not in small part because it is as full of magical creatures as a Harry Potter book.1
A rough inventory of magical beasts includes: Leviathan, the giant sea serpent/dragon, Behemoth, the monster, Niphilim, 450 ft. tall giants, a talking donkey, the Ziz (a flying monster in Psalms 50:11), witches, talking snakes, horny angels and – to the surprise of many – unicorns.
This discovery runs counter to the ubiquitous and stunningly annoying hit song of the eighties: the Unicorn by the Irish Rovers.
And the waters came down and sort of floated them away
And that’s why you’ll never see a unicorn, to this very day.
Nevertheless, the following scriptural passages reference unicorns. We invite the reader to draw their own conclusion as to the existence of these elegant beasts.
Numbers 24:8
“God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.” – Num. 24:8 [KJV]
Psalms
“Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.” – Psalms 22:21 [KJV]
And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son of unicorns. – Psalms 29:6 [DRB]
“But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn.” Psalms 82:10 [KJV]
Deuteronomy
“His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.” – Deuteronomy 33:17 [KJV]
Isaiah
“And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.” – Isaiah 34:7 [KJV]
Book of Job
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy crib?
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?
Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great?
Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed,
And gather it into thy barn? – Job 39:9-12 [KJV]
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy crib?
- Job 39:9-12
NOTES:
- Counterintuitively, evangelicals hate Harry Potter and condemn it as the work of the devil, while simultaneously swearing by angels, sea monsters and talking donkeys..
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