Friday, January 12, 2024

On DRAGONS

 


What does the Bible say about dragons?

Deuteronomy 32:33

King James Version

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, 

and the cruel venom of asps.


Psalm 44:18-19

King James Version

18 Our heart is not turned back, 

neither have our steps declined from thy way;

19 Though thou hast sore broken us 

in the place of dragons, and covered us 

with the shadow of death.


Psalm 74:12-14

King James Version

12 For God is my King of old, 

working salvation in the midst of the earth.

13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: 

thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, 

and gavest him to be meat 

to the people inhabiting the wilderness.


Psalm 91:13

King James Version

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: 

the young lion and the dragon 

shalt thou trample under feet.


Psalm 148:7

King James Version

7 Praise the Lord from the earth, 

ye dragons, and all deeps:


Isaiah 13:22

King James Version

22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry 

in their desolate houses, 

and dragons in their pleasant palaces: 

and her time is near to come, 

and her days shall not be prolonged.


Isaiah 27:1

King James Version

27 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.


Isaiah 34:13

King James Version

13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, 

nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: 

and it shall be an habitation of dragons, 

and a court for owls.


Isaiah 43:20

King James Version

20 The beast of the field shall honour me, 

the dragons and the owls: 

because I give waters in the wilderness, 

and rivers in the desert, 

to give drink to my people, my chosen.


Isaiah 51:9

King James Version

9 Awake, awake, 

put on strength, O arm of the Lord; 

awake, as in the ancient days, 

n the generations of old. 

Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, 

and wounded the dragon?


Jeremiah 14:6

King James Version

6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, 

they snuffed up the wind like dragons; 

their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.


Jeremiah 51:34

King James Version

34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon 

hath devoured me, 

he hath crushed me, 

he hath made me an empty vessel, 

he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, 

he hath filled his belly with my delicates, 

he hath cast me out.


Ezekiel 29:1-6

King James Version

29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, 

in the twelfth day of the month, 

the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face 

against Pharaoh king of Egypt, 

and prophesy against him, 

and against all Egypt:

3 Speak, and say, 

Thus saith the Lord God; 

Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, 

the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, 

which hath said, My river is mine own, 

and I have made it for myself.

4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, 

and I will cause the fish of thy rivers 

to stick unto thy scales, 

and I will bring thee up 

out of the midst of thy rivers, 

and all the fish of thy rivers 

shall stick unto thy scales.

5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, 

thee and all the fish of thy rivers: 

thou shalt fall upon the open fields; 

thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: 

I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field 

and to the fowls of the heaven.

6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know 

that I am the Lord, 

because they have been a staff of reed 

to the house of Israel.


Micah 1:8-9

King James Version

8 Therefore I will wail and howl, 

I will go stripped and naked: 

I will make a wailing like the dragons, 

and mourning as the owls.

9 For her wound is incurable; 

for it is come unto Judah; 

he is come unto the gate of my people,

even to Jerusalem.


Malachi 1:1-5

King James Version

1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel 

by Malachi.

2 I have loved you, saith the Lord. 

Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? 

Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: 

yet I loved Jacob,

3 And I hated Esau, 

and laid his mountains and his heritage waste 

for the dragons of the wilderness.

4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, 

but we will return and build the desolate places; 

thus saith the Lord of hosts, 

They shall build, but I will throw down; 

and they shall call them, 

The border of wickedness, 

and, The people against whom 

the Lord hath indignation for ever.

5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, 

The Lord will be magnified 

from the border of Israel.


Revelation 12:3-4

King James Version

3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; 

and behold a great red dragon, 

having seven heads and ten horns, 

and seven crowns upon his heads.

4 And his tail drew the third part 

of the stars of heaven, 

and did cast them to the earth: 

and the dragon stood before the woman 

which was ready to be delivered, 

for to devour her child as soon as it was born.


Revelation 12:7-9

King James Version

7 And there was war in heaven: 

Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; 

and the dragon fought and his angels,

8 And prevailed not; 

neither was their place found any more in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, 

that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, 

which deceiveth the whole world: 

he was cast out into the earth, 

and his angels were cast out with him.


Revelation 12:10-12

King James Version

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 

Now is come salvation, and strength, 

and the kingdom of our God, 

and the power of his Christ: 

for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, 

which accused them before our God day and night.

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, 

and by the word of their testimony; 

and they loved not their lives unto the death.

12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, 

and ye that dwell in them. 

Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! 

for the devil is come down unto you, 

having great wrath, because he knoweth 

that he hath but a short time.


Revelation 12:13-14

King James Version

13 And when the dragon saw 

that he was cast unto the earth, 

he persecuted the woman 

which brought forth the man child.

14 And to the woman were given 

two wings of a great eagle, 

that she might fly into the wilderness, 

into her place, 

where she is nourished for a time, 

and times, and half a time, 

from the face of the serpent.


Revelation 12:15-17

King James Version

15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water 

as a flood after the woman, 

that he might cause her 

to be carried away of the flood.

16 And the earth helped the woman, 

and the earth opened her mouth, 

and swallowed up the flood 

which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, 

and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, 

which keep the commandments of God, 

and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.


Revelation 20:1-3

King James Version

20 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, 

having the key of the bottomless pit 

and a great chain in his hand.

2 And he laid hold on the dragon, 

that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, 

and bound him a thousand years,

3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, 

and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, 

that he should deceive the nations no more, 

till the thousand years should be fulfilled: 

and after that he must be loosed a little season.


Revelation 20:7-10

King James Version

7 And when the thousand years are expired, 

Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8 And shall go out to deceive the nations 

which are in the four quarters of the earth, 

Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: 

the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, 

and compassed the camp of the saints about, 

and the beloved city: 

and fire came down from God out of heaven,

 and devoured them.

10 And the devil that deceived them 

was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, 

where the beast and the false prophet are, 

and shall be tormented day and night 

for ever and ever.


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