39 Bible Verses about bugs
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Their tails were like scorpions' tails, for there were stings in their tails. They had power to hurt men five months.
Dead flies cause the perfumer's oil to smell. A little foolishness does the same for the one with a reputation for wisdom and honor.
Do not eat any creature with many legs that goes on its belly or on the ground like a four-legged animal, or any creature that swarms on the ground. Consider them disgusting.
He spoke, and swarms of flies and gnats infested their entire territory.
Jehovah did what he said. Dense swarms of flies came into Pharaoh's palace and into the houses of his officials. All over Egypt the flies ruined everything.
Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.
I warn you that if you refuse, I will punish you by sending flies on you, your officials, and your people. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies. The ground will be covered with them.
I know every bird in the mountains. Everything that moves in the fields is mine.
Their hair was like the hair of women. Their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
I will not let insects destroy your crops. Your grapevines will produce abundantly.
And all the teeming life with wings is unclean to you. Do not eat them.
The locusts were not to kill them, but should torment them for five months: and their torment was the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a man.
The ants are beings that are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer.
The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. They wore gold crowns on their heads and their faces were like the faces of men.
(For the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. Questionable passage.)
They had breastplates like iron. The sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle.
Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.
Out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth. Power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power.
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
God made the wild animals according to their kinds. He made the livestock according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
And Jehovah God prepared a gourd plant. He made it grow up over Jonah. That way it would be a shade over his head. It would deliver him from his disastrous (fateful) attitude. So Jonah was very glad to have the gourd plant.
We saw Nephilim there. The descendants of Anak are Nephilim. We felt as small as grasshoppers. That is no doubt how we must have looked to them.
But Peter said: No Lord for I have never eaten any thing that is defiled or unclean.
When the Pharisees heard it, they said: This man casts out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of the demons.
I will throw your enemies into panic! I will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites as you advance.
The next morning God prepared a worm and it attacked the plant and it withered.
Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I will help you. This is the declaration of Jehovah, your Redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel.
Why should the king of Israel be out chasing me, anyway? I am as worthless as a dead dog or a flea.
Jehovah did what Moses asked. The swarms of flies left Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. Not a single fly was left.
Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt. Jehovah made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: When you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until evening.
