Behemoth

the animal described in Job xi; 15-24. It is probably the hippopotamus, which, in the time of Job, seems to have been found in the Nile below the cataracts, though now it is said to occur only above them, A second opinion entertained is that Job’s behemoth was the elephant; while a few scholars make the le probable conjecture that it was the rhinoceros, & Pe Signe AS 2 LO Eth ’.: way BEGONIA REX. Behistun, or Bisutun, 2 mountain near a village of the same name in Persian Kurdistan, celebrated for the sculptures and cuneiform inscriptions cut upon one of its sides—a rock rising almost perpendicularly to the height of 1,700 feet. These works, which stand about 300 feet from the ground, were executed by the orders of Darius I., King of Persia, and set forth his genealogy and victories.