0 The Bible: Topics: Unicorns

He shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it ... and .... sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. Leviticus 3:2

Trivia: According to the Bible, a 20 to 60 year-old man is worth 50 shekels of silver. How much is a woman of the same age worth?

God is as strong as a unicorn.

God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. Numbers 23:22

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. Numbers 24:8

Joseph's horns are like the horns of unicorns.

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

God challenges Job with these questions:

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Job 39:9

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Job 39:10

The Psalmist says God has heard him from the horns of the unicorns.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. Psalm 22:21

That Lebanon skips like a young unicorn.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. Psalm 29:6

And that his horn will be exalted like the horn of a unicorn.

But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. Psalm 92:10

Isaiah tells us that there will be unicorns wandering around when God's sword is be filled with blood.

The sword of the LORD is filled with blood ...And the unicorns shall come down with them ... and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. Isaiah 34:7

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