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While the name BEHEMOTH appears only once, the LEVIATHAN is mentioned several times in scripture.

Job 41:1

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Job 41:1-3 (in Context) 

Psalm 74:14

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Psalm 74:13-15 (in Context) 

Psalm 104:26

There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

Psalm 104:25-27 (in Context) 

Isaiah 27:1

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 27:1-3 (in Context) 

 Behemoth and Leviathan, watercolour by William Blake from his Illustrations of the Book of Job.

Job 40:15–24 describes Behemoth, and then the sea-monster Leviathan, to demonstrate to Job the futility of questioning God, who alone has created these beings and who alone can capture them.  Both beasts are chaos monsters destroyed by the deity at the time of creation, although such a conflict is not found in the creation account.

Leviathan is identified figuratively with both the primeval sea and in apocalyptic literature – describing the end-time – as that adversary, the Devil, from before creation who will finally be defeated. In the divine speeches in Job, Behemoth and Leviathan may both be seen as composite and mythical creatures with enormous strength, which humans like Job could not hope to control. But both are reduced to the status of divine pets, with rings through their noses and Leviathan on a leash.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.