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Locust, The

 

Locust, The

A small insect - Pr 30:24,27

Clean and fit for food - Le 11:21,22

DESCRIBED AS

• Wise
- Pr 30:24,27
• Voracious
- Ex 10:15
• Rapid in movement
- Isa 33:4
• Like to horses prepared for battle
- Joe 2:4; Re 9:7

Carried every way by the wind - Ex 10:13,19

Immensely numerous - Ps 105:34; Na 3:15

Flies in bands and with order - Pr 30:27

One of the plagues of Egypt - Ex 10:4-15

THE JEWS

• Used as food
- Mt 3:4
• Threatened with, as a punishment for sin
- De 28:38,42
• Deprecated the plague of
- 1Ki 8:37,38
• Often plagued by
- Joe 1:4; 2:25
• Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c
- 2Ch 7:13,14

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of destructive enemies
- Joe 1:6,7; 2:2-9
• Of false teachers of the apostasy
- Re 9:3
• Of ungodly rulers
- Na 3:17
• (Destruction of,) of destruction of God's enemies
- Na 3:15
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