Psalms 74:13-14
13You adivided the sea by your might;you bbroke the heads of cthe sea monsters ▼
▼Or the great sea creatures
on the waters.14You crushed the heads of eLeviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Isaiah 27:1
The Redemption of Israel
1In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong fsword will punish gLeviathan the fleeing serpent, hLeviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay ithe dragon that is in the sea.Isaiah 51:9
9 jAwake, awake, kput on strength,O larm of the Lord;
awake, mas in days of old,
the generations of long ago.
Was it not you who cut nRahab in pieces,
who pierced othe dragon?
Ezekiel 32:2
2 p“Son of man, qraise a lamentation over rPharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:“You consider yourself sa lion of the nations,
but you are like ta dragon uin the seas;
vyou burst forth in your rivers,
trouble the waters with your feet,
and foul their rivers.
Revelation of John 12:3-4
3And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great wred dragon, xwith seven heads and yten horns, and on his heads zseven diadems. 4His tail swept down aaa third of the stars of heaven and abcast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child ache might devour it.Revelation of John 12:16-17
16But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth. 17Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off adto make war on the rest of aeher offspring, afon those who keep the commandments of God and hold to agthe testimony of Jesus. And he stood ▼▼Some manuscripts And I stood, connecting the sentence with 13:1
on the sand of the sea. Revelation of John 13:2
2And the beast that I saw was ailike a leopard; its feet were like aja bear’s, and its mouth was like aka lion’s mouth. And to it althe dragon gave his power and amhis throne and great authority.Revelation of John 13:4
4And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, an“Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”Revelation of John 13:11
The Second Beast
11Then aoI saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
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