Locust, The

A small insect — Pr 30:24,27.

Clean and fit for food — Le 11:21,22.

Described as

Wise. — Pr 30:24,27.

Voracious. — Ex 10:15.

Rapid in movement. — Isa 33:4.

Like to horses prepared for battle. — Joe 2:4; Re 9:7.

Carried every way by the wind — Ex 10:13,19.

Immensely numerous — Ps 105:34; Na 3:15.

Flies in bands and with order — Pr 30:27.

One of the plagues of Egypt — Ex 10:4-15.

The Jews

Used as food. — Mt 3:4.

Threatened with, as a punishment for sin. — De 28:38,42.

Deprecated the plague of. — 1Ki 8:37,38.

Often plagued by. — Joe 1:4; 2:25.

Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c. — 2Ch 7:13,14.

Illustrative

Of destructive enemies. — Joe 1:6,7; 2:2-9.

Of false teachers of the apostasy. — Re 9:3.

Of ungodly rulers. — Na 3:17.

(Destruction of,) of destruction of God’s enemies. — Na 3:15.