55 Bible Verses about Insects
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Every flying swarming creature going on all four, it is an abomination to you. Yet you may eat these of any flying swarming thing that goes on all four, those which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the earth. You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind.read more.
But every other flying swarming thing which has four feet shall be an abomination to you.
And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the dead body of the lion. And behold! A swarm of bees and honey was in the dead body of the lion.
And the Amorites who lived in that mountain came out against you and chased you, even as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, to Hormah.
They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?
And now, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of Jehovah. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.
And Jehovah did so. And teeming swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was destroyed because of the swarms.
And if you will not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your house. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they are. And in that day I will cut off the land of Goshen, in which My people live, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, so that you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.
He sent different kinds of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment; and its inhabitants shall die in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.
And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth. And it became lice in man and in beast. All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth lice, but they could not. So there were lice upon man and upon beast.
He spoke, and there came fly swarms and gnats in all their borders.
It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, of the giants. And we were in our own sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blasting, mildew, locusts; if there are stripping locusts; if their enemy encircles them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness,
If there is famine in the land, if there is a plague, if blasting or mildew, locusts or ravagers, if their enemies have distressed them in the gates of their land, with any plague and any sickness;
There fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust. Make yourself as many as the larvae, multiply yourself like the locusts.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
And Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them, until the ones who are left, and who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, not with your sword, nor with your bow.
And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, My great army which I sent among you.
And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair and a leather girdle about his loins. And his food was locusts and wild honey.
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a leather girdle about his loin. And he ate locusts and wild honey.
And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all the night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coasts of Egypt, very numerous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust.
the locusts have no king, yet they go forth by bands, all of them;
They shall cut down her forest, says Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts and cannot be counted.
And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a watchman makes.
You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help Me; who is he who shall condemn Me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but My righteousness shall be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation.
Therefore I am as a moth to Ephraim, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Sell what you have and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which do not become old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where no thief comes nor moth corrupts.
They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind.
The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! Three things are never satisfied, yea, four things never say, Enough!
For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring the locusts into your coast.
But they did not listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning. And it became rotten with maggots, and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
Four things are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer; the rock-badgers are not a mighty people, yet they make their houses in the rock;read more.
the locusts have no king, yet they go forth by bands, all of them; you can take the lizard with the hands, yet it is in king's palaces.
That which the creeping locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten. And that which the swarming locust has left, the locust larvae has eaten. And that which the locust larvae has left, the stripping locust has eaten.
But lay up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts for multitude, both they and their camels were without number. And they entered into the land to destroy it.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a watchman makes.
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help Me; who is he who shall condemn Me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.
And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.
Insects » Flies
As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little folly is more rare than wisdom and than honor.
He sent different kinds of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
He spoke, and there came fly swarms and gnats in all their borders.
And if you will not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your house. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they are.
Insects » Bees
And the Amorites who lived in that mountain came out against you and chased you, even as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, to Hormah.
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the dead body of the lion. And behold! A swarm of bees and honey was in the dead body of the lion.
They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
Insects » Grasshoppers » Hornets
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, not with your sword, nor with your bow.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
And Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them, until the ones who are left, and who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Fly
As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little folly is more rare than wisdom and than honor.
And in that day I will cut off the land of Goshen, in which My people live, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, so that you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.
Insects » Fed by God
This is the great and wide sea, in which are creeping things without number, both small and great animals.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Grasshopper
You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind.
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts for multitude, both they and their camels were without number. And they entered into the land to destroy it.
Can you make him leap like a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrifying.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Bee
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the dead body of the lion. And behold! A swarm of bees and honey was in the dead body of the lion.
They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
Insects » Locusts » Spiders
They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Moth
How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a watchman makes.
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help Me; who is he who shall condemn Me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Ant
Insects » Ants
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Lice
He spoke, and there came fly swarms and gnats in all their borders.
And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Caterpillar
And your spoil shall be gathered as the stripping locust gathers; as the running to and fro of locusts he shall run on them.
He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Spider
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Cankerworm
That which the creeping locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten. And that which the swarming locust has left, the locust larvae has eaten. And that which the locust larvae has left, the stripping locust has eaten.
There fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust. Make yourself as many as the larvae, multiply yourself like the locusts. You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the locust larvae shall strip off and fly away.
Insects » Clean and unclean (ceremonially speaking)
And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
Yet you may eat these of any flying swarming thing that goes on all four, those which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the earth. You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind. But every other flying swarming thing which has four feet shall be an abomination to you. read more.
And you shall be unclean for these. Whoever touches their dead body shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening;
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Earthworm
They shall lick the dust like a snake; they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth. They shall dread Jehovah our God, and shall fear because of You.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Palmerworm
That which the creeping locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten. And that which the swarming locust has left, the locust larvae has eaten. And that which the locust larvae has left, the stripping locust has eaten.
I have stricken you with blasting and mildew. When your gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees. and your olive trees increased, the creeping locust devoured them; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.
Insects » Divided into » Unclean and abominable
But every other flying swarming thing which has four feet shall be an abomination to you. And you shall be unclean for these. Whoever touches their dead body shall be unclean until the evening.
Insects » Divided into » Clean and fit for food
Yet you may eat these of any flying swarming thing that goes on all four, those which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the earth. You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Hornet
And Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them, until the ones who are left, and who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Bald locust
You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Locust
And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all the night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Beetle
You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind.
Insects » Created by God
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth after its kind; and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and all creepers upon the earth after their kind. And God saw that it was good.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Flea
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?
Insects » Fleas
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Gnat
Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Insects » Gnats
Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Maggot
But they did not listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning. And it became rotten with maggots, and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
