54 Bible Verses about Insects
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"All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you. Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground. Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.read more.
But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.
And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains."
And the LORD did so. There came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses. Throughout all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by the swarms of flies.
Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand. But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt.'"
And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt. The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
"If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
"If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left." So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts. The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again.
He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
They shall cut down her forest, declares the LORD, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.
The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough":
For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer; the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;read more.
the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank; the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number--both they and their camels could not be counted--so that they laid waste the land as they came in.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
Insects » Flies
Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
Insects » Bees
In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Insects » Grasshoppers » Hornets
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Fly
Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Insects » Fed by God
The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.
Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Grasshopper
Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.
For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number--both they and their camels could not be counted--so that they laid waste the land as they came in.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Bee
In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Insects » Locusts » Spiders
They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Moth
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Ant
the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
Insects » Ants
the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Lice
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt.'"
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Caterpillar
and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.
He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Spider
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Cankerworm
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper! You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
Insects » Clean and unclean (ceremonially speaking)
And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground. Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind. But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you. read more.
"And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Earthworm
they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Palmerworm
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
"I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
Insects » Divided into » Unclean and abominable
But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you. "And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
Insects » Divided into » Clean and fit for food
Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground. Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Hornet
Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Bald locust
Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Locust
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left." So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Beetle
Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.
Insects » Created by God
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds--livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its 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
Insects » Gnats
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Maggot
But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
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