Insects
35 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
23 sections
Ant
- Proverbs 6:6 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
- Proverbs 30:25 The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
Bald Locust
- Leviticus 11:22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Bee
- Judges 14:8 When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
- Psalm 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Isaiah 7:18 On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
Beetle
- Leviticus 11:22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Cankerworm
- Joel 1:4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Nahum 3:15–16 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust! …
Caterpillar
- Psalm 78:46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
- Isaiah 33:4 Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
Clean and Unclean (Ceremonially Speaking)
- Leviticus 11:21–25 However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground. …
- Deuteronomy 14:19 All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
Created by God
- Genesis 1:24–25 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. …
Divided Into: Clean and Fit for Food
- Leviticus 11:21–22 However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground. …
Divided Into: Unclean and Abominable
- Leviticus 11:23–24 All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you. …
Earthworm
- Job 25:6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
- Micah 7:17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
Fed by God
- Psalm 104:25 Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
- Psalm 104:27 All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
- Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
- Psalm 145:15 The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
Flea
- 1 Samuel 24:14 Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
Fly
- Exodus 8:22 But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.
- Ecclesiastes 10:1 As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
- Isaiah 7:18 On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
Gnat
- Matthew 23:24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
Grasshopper
- Leviticus 11:22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
- Judges 6:5 For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
- Job 39:20 Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
Hornet
- Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
Lice
- Exodus 8:16 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”
- Psalm 105:31 He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.
Locust
- Exodus 10:12–13 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land — everything that the hail has left behind.” …
Maggot
- Exodus 16:20 But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
Moth
- Job 4:19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 27:18 The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
- Isaiah 50:9 Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
Palmer-Worm
- Joel 1:4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Amos 4:9 “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
Spider
- Job 8:14 His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
- Proverbs 30:28 and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.