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Created page with "'''Leviathan''' is a sea animal mentioned in the Book of Job, Psalms, and [Isaiah]. == Biblical description == {{Bible quote| 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.|book=Isaiah|chap=27|verses=1|version=KJV}} {{Bible quote| There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.|book=..." |
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'''Leviathan''' is a sea animal mentioned in the [[Book of Job]], [[Psalms]], and [Isaiah]. | '''Leviathan''' is a sea animal mentioned in the [[Book of Job]], [[Psalms]], and [[Book of Isaiah]]. | ||
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He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. | He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. | ||
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. | Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. | ||
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.|book=Job|chap=41|verses=34|version=KJV}} | He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.|book=Job|chap=41|verses=1-34|version=KJV}} | ||
==Interpretations of who could Leviathan represent== | |||
===Whale=== | |||
Matthew Henry prefers the whale as candidate for Leviathan. <ref>https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/job/41.html</ref> | |||
===Crocodile=== | |||
The Revised Standard Version footnote identifies Leviathan as Crocodile. <ref>https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2041%3A1&version=RSV</ref> | |||
===Extinct animal identifications=== | |||
Young Earth Creationists suggest that sarcosuchus, mosasaurus, plesiosaurus, liopleurodon, and kronosaurus are possible candidates for Leviathan. <ref>https://creation.com/en/articles/behemoth-leviathan</ref> <ref>https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/drawing-out-biblical-leviathan/</ref> | |||
Some Old Earth creationists propose Leviathan as a dinosaur while rejecting human-dinosaur coexistence. They argue instead God used the extinct dinosaur as an example in His conversation with Job. <ref>https://www.oldearth.org/job4041a.htm</ref> | |||
== References == | |||