55 Bible Verses about Insects

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Leviticus 11:20-23

"'Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you. However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land. These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.read more.
But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

Deuteronomy 14:19

and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you -- they may not be eaten.

Proverbs 30:25

ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;

Judges 14:8

Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to see the lion's remains. He saw a swarm of bees in the lion's carcass, as well as some honey.

Deuteronomy 1:44

The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

Isaiah 7:18

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

1 Samuel 24:14

Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea?

1 Samuel 26:20

Now don't let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord's presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge in the hill country."

Exodus 8:24

The Lord did so; a thick swarm of flies came into Pharaoh's house and into the houses of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

Exodus 8:21-22

If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on. But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

Psalm 78:45

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

Isaiah 51:6

Look up at the sky! Look at the earth below! For the sky will dissipate like smoke, and the earth will wear out like clothes; its residents will die like gnats. But the deliverance I give is permanent; the vindication I provide will not disappear.

Exodus 8:16

The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

Exodus 8:17-18

They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt. When the magicians attempted to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.

Psalm 105:31

He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.

Isaiah 40:22

He is the one who sits on the earth's horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.

Numbers 13:33

We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them."

1 Kings 8:37

"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

2 Chronicles 6:28

"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

Psalm 105:34

He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

Nahum 3:15

Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!

Exodus 23:28

I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

Deuteronomy 7:20

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

Joshua 24:12

I sent terror ahead of you to drive out before you the two Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.

Joel 2:25

I will make up for the years that the 'arbeh-locust consumed your crops -- the yeleq-locust, the hasil-locust, and the gazam-locust -- my great army that I sent against you.

Matthew 3:4

Now John wore clothing made from camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6

John wore a garment made of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Exodus 10:12-14

The Lord said to Moses, "Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left." So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts! The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.

Psalm 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Proverbs 30:27

locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;

Jeremiah 46:23

The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest. But I, the Lord, affirm that the enemy will cut them down. For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts. They will be too numerous to count.

Job 13:28

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

Matthew 6:19-20

"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.

Job 4:19

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Job 27:18

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

Psalm 39:11

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

Isaiah 50:9

Look, the sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.

Isaiah 51:8

For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last."

Hosea 5:12

I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.

Leviticus 11:22

These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

Proverbs 30:15

The leech has two daughters: "Give! Give!" There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough" --

Exodus 10:4

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Proverbs 30:28

a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.

Exodus 16:20

But they did not listen to Moses; some kept part of it until morning, and it was full of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them.

Proverbs 30:24-28

There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise: ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer; rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;read more.
locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks; a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.

Joel 1:4

What the gazam-locust left the 'arbeh-locust consumed, what the 'arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!

Matthew 6:20

But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.

Judges 6:5

When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

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Insects » Locusts » Moths

Job 4:19

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Job 27:18

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

Isaiah 50:9

Look, the sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.

Job 13:28

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

More verses: James 5:2 Hosea 5:12

Insects » Flies

Ecclesiastes 10:1

One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.

Psalm 78:45

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

Psalm 105:31

He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.

Exodus 8:21

If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.

Insects » Bees

Isaiah 7:18

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

Deuteronomy 1:44

The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

Judges 14:8

Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to see the lion's remains. He saw a swarm of bees in the lion's carcass, as well as some honey.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

Insects » Grasshoppers » Hornets

Joshua 24:12

I sent terror ahead of you to drive out before you the two Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.

Exodus 23:28

I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

Deuteronomy 7:20

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Fly

Ecclesiastes 10:1

One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.

Isaiah 7:18

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

Exodus 8:22

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

Insects » Fed by God

Psalm 145:15

Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.

Psalm 104:25

Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and has compassion on all he has made.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Grasshopper

Leviticus 11:22

These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

Judges 6:5

When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

Job 39:20

Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Bee

Isaiah 7:18

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

Judges 14:8

Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to see the lion's remains. He saw a swarm of bees in the lion's carcass, as well as some honey.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

Insects » Locusts » Spiders

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.

Proverbs 30:28

a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Moth

Job 4:19

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Job 27:18

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

Isaiah 50:9

Look, the sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Ant

Proverbs 30:25

ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;

Insects » Ants

Proverbs 30:25

ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Lice

Psalm 105:31

He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.

Exodus 8:16

The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Caterpillar

Isaiah 33:4

Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!

Psalm 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Spider

Proverbs 30:28

a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Cankerworm

Joel 1:4

What the gazam-locust left the 'arbeh-locust consumed, what the 'arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!

Nahum 3:15-16

Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust! Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.

Insects » Clean and unclean (ceremonially speaking)

Deuteronomy 14:19

and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you -- they may not be eaten.

Leviticus 11:21-25

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land. These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind. But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you. read more.
"'By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening, and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Earthworm

Job 25:6

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot -- a son of man, who is only a worm!"

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will be terrified of you.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Palmerworm

Joel 1:4

What the gazam-locust left the 'arbeh-locust consumed, what the 'arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!

Amos 4:9

"I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!

Insects » Divided into » Unclean and abominable

Leviticus 11:23-24

But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you. "'By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Insects » Divided into » Clean and fit for food

Leviticus 11:21-22

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land. These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Hornet

Deuteronomy 7:20

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Bald locust

Leviticus 11:22

These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Locust

Exodus 10:12-13

The Lord said to Moses, "Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left." So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Beetle

Leviticus 11:22

These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

Insects » Created by God

Genesis 1:24-25

God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind." It was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Flea

1 Samuel 24:14

Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea?

Insects » Fleas

1 Samuel 24:14

Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea?

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Gnat

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

Insects » Gnats

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Maggot

Exodus 16:20

But they did not listen to Moses; some kept part of it until morning, and it was full of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them.

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