Unicorn (wild Ox, R. V.)
Unicorns appear in the King James text, but the old word points to a powerful wild ox, which is how some later translations render it. The picture is always strength. Balaam says of Israel in Numbers 24:8 that God brought them out of Egypt and gave them “the strength of an unicorn.” Moses blesses Joseph with horns that push the peoples together, and the psalmist cries out to be saved “from the horns of the unicorns” in Psalm 22:21, a creature to be feared. Isaiah 34 sets unicorns among the beasts that fall in judgment. Deuteronomy 33:17 is a good place to begin.
4 verses
Numbers
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.
Deuteronomy
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.
Psalms
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Isaiah
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.