the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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箴言 30:27
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蝗 虫 没 有 君 王 ， 却 分 队 而 出 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The locusts: Exodus 10:4-6, Exodus 10:13-15, Psalms 105:34, Joel 1:4, Joel 1:6, Joel 1:7, Joel 2:7-11, Joel 2:25, Revelation 9:3-11
by bands: Heb. gathered together
Cross-References
I will bless those who bless you, and I will place a curse on those who harm you. And all the people on earth will be blessed through you."
and said, "Sir, if you think well of me, please stay awhile with me, your servant.
The Lord appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Don't be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my servant Abraham."
Jacob became angry with her and said, "Can I do what only God can do? He is the one who has kept you from having children."
She became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.
Later Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
When she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, she said, "God has taken away my shame,"
When I came, you had little, but now you have much. Every time I did something for you, the Lord blessed you. But when will I be able to do something for my own family?"
So Esau said, "Then let me leave some of my people with you." "No, thank you," said Jacob. "I only want to please you, my master."
Shechem also talked to Jacob and to Dinah's brothers and said, "Please accept my offer. I will give anything you ask.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The locusts have no king,.... These are small creatures also, yet very devouring ones; and consume the fruits of the earth, wherever they come and light; see Exodus 10:13; they are very numerous, and move in large bodies, and yet with great regularity and order; which shows the wisdom there is in them by natural instinct, though they have no king to command, guide, and direct them: in this the mystical locusts differ from them, who have a king, whose name is Abaddon, Revelation 9:11;
yet they go forth all of them by bands; the Targum is,
"they are all gathered together as one.''
They get together in one place; they associate and join themselves in bands, and keep together, though they have no ruler over them; an emblem of unity, concord, and harmony, let the form of government be what it will, as the best security to a people: and these creatures, when they move from place to place, they move in a body, in a very regular manner; "in precise order" u, as the words may be rendered, with great exactness, everyone in his proper place, all in rank and file; and though they have no general to marshal them, yet are in, and march in as good order as the most regular army does. So the Arabic version,
"yet in their army, their affairs and manner are in a beautiful disposition;''
indeed they are God's army, as they are called, Joel 2:25; and it is he that gives them their wisdom, instructions, directions, and commission. It is rendered by some, "everyone cutting"; that is, as Kimchi w interprets it, cutting the green grass and trees; or, "every one dividing" x; that is, to himself, the prey or spoils, as kings do; see Isaiah 33:4.
u Vid. Hilier. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 187. w Sepher Shorash. rad. ×צץ; so Stockius, p. 377. "exeidens omnia, herbas, scil. et fruges", Schindler. col. 633. so Ben Melech. x ×צץ ××× "unaquaeque sibi dividens", Bochart; so Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Compare Joel 2:7-8; the most striking fact in the flight of the locust-swarms was their apparent order and discipline, sweeping over the land like the invasion of a great army.
