The Locust
17 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
16 sections
- (Destruction of) of Destruction of God's Enemies
- A Small Insect
- Carried Every Way by the Wind
- Clean and Fit for Food
- Flies in Bands and with Order
- Immensely Numerous
- Like to Horses Prepared for Battle
- One of the Plagues of Egypt
- Rapid in Movement
- The Jews used As Food
- The Jews: Deprecated the Plague of
- The Jews: Often Plagued By
- The Jews: Promised Deliverance from the Plague of, on Humiliation
- The Jews: Threatened With, As a Punishment for Sin
- Voracious
- Wise
(Destruction of) of Destruction of God's Enemies
- Nahum 3:15 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!
A Small Insect
- Proverbs 30:24 Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:
- Proverbs 30:27 the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
Carried Every Way by the Wind
- Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:19 And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
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. …
Flies in Bands and with Order
- Proverbs 30:27 the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
Immensely Numerous
- Psalm 105:34 He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
- Nahum 3:15 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!
Like to Horses Prepared for Battle
- Joel 2:4 Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.
- Revelation 9:7 And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men.
One of the Plagues of Egypt
- Exodus 10:4–15 But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. …
Rapid in Movement
- Isaiah 33:4 Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
The Jews used As Food
- Matthew 3:4 John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
The Jews: Deprecated the Plague of
- 1 Kings 8:37–38 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come, …
The Jews: Often Plagued By
- 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.
- Joel 2:25 I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts — the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust— My great army that I sent against you.
The Jews: Promised Deliverance from the Plague of, on Humiliation
- 2 Chronicles 7:13–14 If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, …
The Jews: Threatened With, As a Punishment for Sin
- Deuteronomy 28:38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
Voracious
- Exodus 10:15 They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
Wise
- Proverbs 30:24 Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:
- Proverbs 30:27 the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.