Bible Concordances

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Locust, the

• A small insect
  Proverbs 30:24,27

• Clean and fit for food
  Leviticus 11:21,22

• DESCRIBED AS
  • Wise
    Proverbs 30:24,27
  • Voracious
    Exodus 10:15
  • Rapid in movement
    Isaiah 33:4
  • Like to horses prepared for battle
    Joel 2:4; Revelation 9:7

• Carried every way by the wind
  Exodus 10:13,19

• Immensely numerous
  Psalm 105:34; Nahum 3:15

• Flies in bands and with order
  Proverbs 30:27

• One of the plagues of Egypt
  Exodus 10:4-15

• THE JEWS
  • Used as food
    Matthew 3:4
  • Threatened with, as a punishment for sin
    Deuteronomy 28:38,42
  • Deprecated the plague of
    1 Kings 8:37,38
  • Often plagued by
    Joel 1:4; 2:25
  • Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c
    2 Chronicles 7:13,14

• ILLUSTRATIVE
  • Of destructive enemies
    Joel 1:6,7; 2:2-9
  • Of false teachers of the apostasy
    Revelation 9:3
  • Of ungodly rulers
    Nahum 3:17
  • (Destruction of,) of destruction of God's enemies
    Nahum 3:15