55 Bible Verses about Insects
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Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you. However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground. You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.read more.
Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.
And all the teeming life with wings is unclean to you. Do not eat them.
The ants are beings that are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer.
A few days later Samson returned to marry her. On the way he left the road to look at the lion he had killed. He found a swarm of bees and some honey inside the dead body.
The Amorites who lived there came out and attacked you. They chased you like a swarm of bees. They defeated you! They drove you back from Seir all the way to Hormah.
They swarmed around me like bees, but they burned out as quickly as a brush fire; by the power of Jehovah I destroyed them.
In that day Jehovah will whistle for the flies that are at the distant branches of the Nile River in Egypt and for the bees that are in Assyria.
Why should the king of Israel be out chasing me, anyway? I am as worthless as a dead dog or a flea.
Do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of Jehovah. The king of Israel comes to search for a flea. Yet he hunts me down like a partridge on the mountains.
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.
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. At that same time I will cut off the land of Goshen where my people live. No swarms of flies shall be there. / Then you will know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens. Look at the earth below. The heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants die like flies (gnats). But my salvation will last forever! My righteousness will never fail.
Jehovah said to Moses: Tell Aaron, Strike the ground with your stick. The dust will change into gnats in all of Egypt.'
So Aaron struck the ground with his stick. The dust in Egypt was turned into gnats. They swarmed over the people and the animals. The magicians tried to use their magic to make gnats appear, but they failed. There were gnats everywhere!
He spoke, and swarms of flies and gnats infested their entire territory.
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
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.
When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when their enemies attack your people, or when disease or sickness among them destroys the crops,
There may be famine in the land. Plant diseases, heat waves, funguses, locusts, or grasshoppers may destroy crops. Enemies may blockade Israel's city gates. During every plague or sickness
You will be burned to death or killed in battle. You will be devoured like crops eaten by locusts. You grew in number like locusts!
I will throw your enemies into panic! I will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites as you advance.
Jehovah your God will send the hornet against them. Those who are left will hide from you and perish.
You advanced and I threw them into panic in order to drive out the two Amorite kings. Your swords and bows had nothing to do with it.
I will make up to you the years that the locust has eaten, my great army that I sent among you.
John wore clothes made from camel's hair. He had a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
John was clothed in camel's hair with a leather belt about his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.
Jehovah said to Moses: Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts. Let them come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has 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. They invaded all of Egypt and landed all over the country in great swarms. Never before had there been so many locusts, nor would there ever be that many again.
They will cut down the forest,' declares Jehovah, 'since Egypt cannot be found. They are more numerous than locusts. They cannot be counted.
Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal. Accumulate wealth in heaven where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!
The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.
The Lord Jehovah helps me. Who will find me guilty? They will all wear out like a garment and moths will eat them.
The moth will eat them up like a garment. The worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever! My salvation will last through all generations.
Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make yourselves purses that do not get old, a treasure in heaven where moth and rest cannot corrupt and thieves cannot steal.
They hatch viper eggs and weave spider webs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched.
The leach has two daughters. Each cry: Give, Give! There are three things that are never satisfied, yes; even four things never say: It is enough!
If you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
Some of them did not listen to Moses and saved part of it. The next morning it was full of worms and smelled rotten. Moses was angry with them.
There are four things that are little upon the earth, but they (chakam: teach wisdom) are exceeding wise: The ants are beings that are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer. The rock badgers are a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks.read more.
The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks. The spider grasps with her hands, and in kings' palaces.
That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate.
Accumulate wealth in heaven where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
They came with their livestock and tents, as thick as locusts. It was impossible to count the men and their camels. They entered the land and destroyed it.
From Thematic Bible
Insects » Locusts » Moths
Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.
How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!
The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
The Lord Jehovah helps me. Who will find me guilty? They will all wear out like a garment and moths will eat them.
Insects » Flies
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.
He spoke, and swarms of flies and gnats infested their entire territory.
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.
Insects » Bees
In that day Jehovah will whistle for the flies that are at the distant branches of the Nile River in Egypt and for the bees that are in Assyria.
The Amorites who lived there came out and attacked you. They chased you like a swarm of bees. They defeated you! They drove you back from Seir all the way to Hormah.
A few days later Samson returned to marry her. On the way he left the road to look at the lion he had killed. He found a swarm of bees and some honey inside the dead body.
They swarmed around me like bees, but they burned out as quickly as a brush fire; by the power of Jehovah I destroyed them.
Insects » Grasshoppers » Hornets
You advanced and I threw them into panic in order to drive out the two Amorite kings. Your swords and bows had nothing to do with it.
I will throw your enemies into panic! I will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites as you advance.
Jehovah your God will send the hornet against them. Those who are left will hide from you and perish.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Fly
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.
In that day Jehovah will whistle for the flies that are at the distant branches of the Nile River in Egypt and for the bees that are in Assyria.
At that same time I will cut off the land of Goshen where my people live. No swarms of flies shall be there. / Then you will know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.
Insects » Fed by God
The sea is so big and wide with many creatures, living things both large and small.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Grasshopper
They came with their livestock and tents, as thick as locusts. It was impossible to count the men and their camels. They entered the land and destroyed it.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Bee
In that day Jehovah will whistle for the flies that are at the distant branches of the Nile River in Egypt and for the bees that are in Assyria.
A few days later Samson returned to marry her. On the way he left the road to look at the lion he had killed. He found a swarm of bees and some honey inside the dead body.
They swarmed around me like bees, but they burned out as quickly as a brush fire; by the power of Jehovah I destroyed them.
Insects » Locusts » Spiders
They hatch viper eggs and weave spider webs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Moth
How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!
The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
The Lord Jehovah helps me. Who will find me guilty? They will all wear out like a garment and moths will eat them.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Ant
The ants are beings that are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer.
Insects » Ants
The ants are beings that are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Lice
He spoke, and swarms of flies and gnats infested their entire territory.
Jehovah said to Moses: Tell Aaron, Strike the ground with your stick. The dust will change into gnats in all of Egypt.'
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Caterpillar
Your plunder, O nations, is harvested like young devouring locusts; like a swarm of cockroaches men pounce on it.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Spider
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Cankerworm
That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate.
You will be burned to death or killed in battle. You will be devoured like crops eaten by locusts. You grew in number like locusts! You multiplied your merchants like the stars in the sky! But now they are gone, like locusts that spread their wings and fly away.
Insects » Clean and unclean (ceremonially speaking)
And all the teeming life with wings is unclean to you. Do not eat them.
However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground. You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper. Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you. read more.
Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: When you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until evening. When you carry any part of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Earthworm
They will lick up the dust like a serpent. They will come trembling out of their hole like crawling things of the earth. They will approach Jehovah our God with fear and be afraid because of you.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Palmerworm
That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate.
I struck you with scorching and mildew. The caterpillar has devoured the multitudes of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive-trees. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.
Insects » Divided into » Unclean and abominable
Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you. Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: When you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until evening.
Insects » Divided into » Clean and fit for food
However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground. You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Hornet
Jehovah your God will send the hornet against them. Those who are left will hide from you and perish.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Bald locust
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Locust
Jehovah said to Moses: Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts. Let them come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has 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.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Beetle
Insects » Created by God
God said: Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind. It was so. 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.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Flea
Why should the king of Israel be out chasing me, anyway? I am as worthless as a dead dog or a flea.
Insects » Fleas
Why should the king of Israel be out chasing me, anyway? I am as worthless as a dead dog or a flea.
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Gnat
Insects » Gnats
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Maggot
Some of them did not listen to Moses and saved part of it. The next morning it was full of worms and smelled rotten. Moses was angry with them.
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