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'Locusts' in the Bible

Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:

Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsGod's Action Tomorrow

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy 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, even all that the hail hath left.

Verse ConceptsSymbolsStretching OutRemaining FoodAnimals Eating

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; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Verse ConceptseastAnger Of God, Examples OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronOne DayOut Of The EastbugsThe East Wind

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsUnique CreaturesMany Creatures

And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSeaWestWindMiracles Of Moses And AaronOut Of The WestOther References To The Red Sea

For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsLocustsSandCamelsMany CreaturesSand And Gravel

The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;

Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsNo King

And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingHarvestCaterpillarsLocusts

They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

Verse ConceptsForestsMany CombatantsInsectsLocustsFelling Trees

Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsCropsLocustsMowingDestruction Of PlantsAttitudes Towards Kings

Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Verse ConceptsLeatherClothingBeltsAsceticism, People PracticingHairsInsectsJohn The BaptistLocustsWaistsHoneyHairclothHair GarmentsChristmas Tree

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.

Verse ConceptsLeatherClothingBeltsAsceticism, People PracticingHairsInsectsJohn The BaptistLocustsWaistsHoneyHair Garments

And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Verse ConceptsLocustsSymbolsAltar Of IncenseScorpionsbugs

And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men's faces.

Verse ConceptsLocustsThings Like GoldCrowns On CreaturesLike Menbugscrowns

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