The Bible Does mention Dinosaurs!?

Question

Dinosaurs are referred to in several Bible books. The book of Job describes two dinosaurs. One is described in chapter 40 starting at verse 15, and the other in chapter 41 starting at verse 1. We think you will agree that 1½ chapters about dinosaurs is a lot—since most people do not even realize that they are mentioned in the Bible. (Actually reading the Bible would help, though.) Isn't that neat, Since humans are in the Bible, we unconsciously think that dinosaurs were extinct—and therefore not mentioned in the Bible. As you have just seen, the Bible not only refers to dinosaurs, but has detailed information about two of them.Unfortunately, our public school system and the media have convinced us that dinosaurs were extinct at least 60 million years before man appeared on earth. They have done such a good job in this area that we can not imagine people and dinosaurs living at the same time. Isn't that interesting?

Job 40:15 “Take a look at Behemoth,[a]
which I made, just as I made you.
It eats grass like an ox.
16 See its powerful loins
and the muscles of its belly.
17 Its tail is as strong as a cedar.
The sinews of its thighs are knit tightly together.
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze.
Its limbs are bars of iron.
19 It is a prime example of God’s handiwork,
and only its Creator can threaten it.
20 The mountains offer it their best food,
where all the wild animals play.
21 It lies under the lotus plants,[b]
hidden by the reeds in the marsh.
22 The lotus plants give it shade
among the willows beside the stream.
23 It is not disturbed by the raging river,
not concerned when the swelling Jordan rushes around it.
24 No one can catch it off guard
or put a ring in its nose and lead it away.

Job 41:1 [a]“Can you catch Leviathan[b] with a hook
or put a noose around its jaw?
2 Can you tie it with a rope through the nose
or pierce its jaw with a spike?
3 Will it beg you for mercy
or implore you for pity?
4 Will it agree to work for you,
to be your slave for life?
5 Can you make it a pet like a bird,
or give it to your little girls to play with?
6 Will merchants try to buy it
to sell it in their shops?
7 Will its hide be hurt by spears
or its head by a harpoon?
8 If you lay a hand on it,
you will certainly remember the battle that follows.
You won’t try that again!


Verses 41:1-8 are numbered 40:25-32 in Hebrew text.

Can you imagine humans and Dinosaurs co-existing?

MAC- Job 40:15-
Some bibles and study bibles will translate the word “behemoth” as “elephant” or “hippopotamus.” Others will put a note at the edge or bottom of the page, stating that behemoth was probably an elephant or a hippopotamus. Although an elephant or hippopotamus can eat grass (or lie in a covert of reeds and marsh), neither an elephant or a hippopotamus has a “tail like a cedar” (that is, a tail like a large, tapered tree trunk). In your kid’s dinosaur book you will find lots of animals that have “tails like a cedar.”
We would expect behemoth to be a large land animal whose bones are like beams of bronze and so forth, so whatever a behemoth is, it is large. A key phrase is “He is the first of the ways of God.” This phrase in the original Hebrew implied that behemoth was the biggest animal created. Although an elephant or a hippopotamus are big, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, the largest (complete) dinosaur ever discovered

JOHN C-It is hard to read Job 41:18-21 without realizing the Bible is telling us that Leviathan breathes fire. That alone will eliminate almost every living animal. Yes, there is one animal like that in today’s world. It is called a bombardier beetle. This beetle is a native of Central America, and has a nozzle in its hind end that acts like a little flame thrower. It sprays a high-temperature jet of gas (fueled by hydroquinones and hydrogen peroxide with oxidative enzymes) for protection. Now, if a Central American beetle can do it, so could Leviathan. By the way, crocodiles and alligators are out of the picture on this one, don’t you agree?

Answer 1

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

Answer 2

ha ha ha get real. A t-rex stomping through Jerusalem would have warranted a little more mention than a cryptic passage or two. Plus, you know, there were some 60 million (!) years between dinos and humans.

As for behemoth, that was a bull.
The "tail like a cedar," which creationists think indicates a large dinosaur, is not even a real tail. "Tail" was used as a euphemism in the King James version. A more likely translation for the phrase is, "His penis stiffens like a cedar" (Mitchell 1987). The behemoth was probably a bull, and the cedar comparison referred to its virility.

And Leviathan:
1. Leviathan appears also in Ugaritic texts, where it is described as a twisting serpent (echoing language from Isa. 27:1) with seven heads. It personifies the waters of the primeval chaos. The rousing of Leviathan in Job 3:8 implies an undoing of the process of creation (Day 1992).

2. The message of Job 41 is that part of nature is indomitable, that "no purpose of [God's] can be thwarted" (Job 42:2). That message would lose its meaning if Leviathan was an ordinary animal that humans would be able to kill. The larger message of Job is that God's ways cannot always be understood. That message is best served by leaving Leviathan mythical.

Answer 3

according to dictionary.com

Behemoth
1. an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40:15–24.
2. any creature or thing of monstrous size or power: The army's new tank is a behemoth. The cartel is a behemoth small business owners fear

Leviathan
1. (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
2. any huge marine animal, as the whale.
3. anything of immense size and power, as a huge, oceangoing ship.
4. (initial capital letter, italics) a philosophical work (1651) by Thomas Hobbes dealing with the political organization of society.

No mention of dinosaur in either. Just like most things in the bible, the people of the time had no clue what they were talking about and called something they couldn't understand of very large size a Leviathan or Behemoth. I don't believe that this proves they saw a dino.

Answer 4

I knew someone that had a goldfish named Leviathan. I think it later got eaten by a larger fish named Shortstuff.

Why do you feel like the Bible has to talk about dinosaurs anyway? Behemoth is just a big animal, and Leviathan is just a whale. Just because the Bible doesn't explicitly mention dinosaurs doesn't mean that God didn't create them. They came way before man's time, which is what the Bible is a bit more concerned about.

Answer 5

Are you delusional? IT only mentions the behemoth which means a large powerful animal. The bible is most likely describing a hippopotamus, rhinoceros or komodo dragon. The verse from the bible is vague at best, you cannot draw a conclusion that dino's walked with people. That's ludicrous.

Answer 6

The bible was written by men and was subject to interpretation by other men. Since the dinosaurs lived way before there was written history, it's no wonder that dinosaurs were mentioned in the bible and many other scriptures such as the Quran.

Answer 7

The word that gets translated "behemoth" in the KJV was probably a hippopotamus. It just meant "big honkin animal." No proof it meant dinosaurs. They were extinct a LONG time before the Old Testament started being written.

Answer 8

A very desperate attempt I'd say. How do you explain "18 Its bones are tubes of bronze. Its limbs are bars of iron."?

Please, why on earth would you interpret the Behemoth and Leviathan as dinosaurs and not elephants of giraffes or rhinos or even oxen? This is just a ludicrous attempt to validate a backward religion.

Answer 9

Yeah! Except it doesn't mention them as "dinosaurs" (as you know; you've already given Scripture references), but as those behemoths, leviathans, and even dragons. The word "dinosaur" came about AFTER the theory of evolution was made up (people could even compare dictionaries from before the theory became public to dictionaries that came afterwards; "dinosaur" won't be in the ones before the theory).

Here's a link for a video that might explain even more (Hovind's CSE seminar series, video 3 - "Dinosaurs and the Bible"):

http://video.google.com/videopla...

Answer 10

So what descriptions other than one word makes these dinosaurs? From the first description it sounds like a hippo and that leviathan sure sounds like a croc

And now lets try and account for the 65 Million year gap since the death of the dinosaurs

Answer 11

I always thought it sounds like a description of a dragon! I don't know exactly what creature is being referenced there. In my Life Application Study Bible, it is referred to as a crocodile.