Locust, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Proverbs 30:24 OT

  “There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

• Proverbs 30:27 OT

  The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.

• Leviticus 11:21 OT

  Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.

• Leviticus 11:22 OT

  Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

• Exodus 10:15 OT

  For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field,…

• Isaiah 33:4 OT

  Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

• Joel 2:4 OT

  Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and they run as horsemen.

• Revelation 9:7 NT

  The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.

• Exodus 10:13 OT

  Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

• Exodus 10:19 OT

  Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

• Psalms 105:34 OT

  He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number,

• Nahum 3:15 OT

  There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

• Exodus 10:4-15 OT

  Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has…

• Matthew 3:4 NT

  Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

• Deuteronomy 28:38 OT

  You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

• Deuteronomy 28:42 OT

  Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.

• 1 Kings 8:37 OT

  “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

• 1 Kings 8:38 OT

  whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

• Joel 1:4 OT

  What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

• Joel 2:25 OT

  I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

• 2 Chronicles 7:13 OT

  “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• 2 Chronicles 7:14 OT

  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Joel 1:6 OT

  For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

• Joel 1:7 OT

  He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.