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Locust, The
1. A small insect. Pr 30:24,27.
2. Clean and fit for food. Le 11:21,22.
3. Described as
b. Voracious. Ex 10:15.
c. Rapid in movement. Isa 33:4.
d. Like to horses prepared for battle. Joe 2:4; Re 9:7.
4. Carried every way by the wind. Ex 10:13,19.
5. Immensely numerous. Ps 105:34; Na 3:15.
6. Flies in bands and with order. Pr 30:27.
7. One of the plagues of Egypt. Ex 10:4-15.
8. The Jews
a. Used as food. Mt 3:4.
b. Threatened with, as a punishment for sin. De 28:38,42.
c. Deprecated the plague of. 1Ki 8:37,38.
d. Often plagued by. Joe 1:4; 2:25.
e. Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c. 2Ch 7:13,14.
9. Illustrative
a. Of destructive enemies. Joe 1:6,7; 2:2-9.
b. Of false teachers of the apostasy. Re 9:3.
c. Of ungodly rulers. Na 3:17.
d. (Destruction of,) of destruction of God’s enemies. Na 3:15.