LOCUST, THE

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

A small insect

Proverbs 30:24 Proverbs 30:27

Clean and fit for food

Leviticus 11:21 Leviticus 11:22

Carried every way by the wind

Exodus 10:13 Exodus 10:19

Immensely numerous

Psalms 105:34 Nahum 3:15

Flies in bands and with order

Proverbs 30:27

One of the plagues of Egypt

Exodus 10:4-15

DESCRIBED AS

Wise

Proverbs 30:24 Proverbs 30:27

Voracious

Exodus 10:15

Rapid in movement

Isaiah 33:4

Like to horses prepared for battle

Joel 2:4 Revelation 9:7

THE JEWS

Used as food

Matthew 3:4

Threatened with, as a punishment for sin

Deuteronomy 28:38 Deuteronomy 28:42

Deprecated the plague of

1 Kings 8:37 1 Kings 8:38

Often plagued by

Joel 1:4 Joel 2:25

Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c

ILLUSTRATIVE

Of destructive enemies

Joel 1:6 Joel 1:7 Joel 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