From Nave’s Topical Bible
Insects
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 2Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Clean and unclean (ceremonially speaking)Leviticus 11:21–25Deuteronomy 14:19
- See Ant
- See Bee
- See Beetle
- See Cankerworm
- See Caterpillar
- See Flea
- See Flies
- See Gnat
- See Grasshopper
- See Hornet
- See Horse-leech
The passages, in Bible order (2)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Leviticus 11:21–25
However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.
Commentary on Leviticus 11:21–251 voice
“Legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth - The families of the Saltatoria, of which the common cricket, the common grasshopper, and the migratory locust, may be taken as types.”
Albert Barnes · Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Deuteronomy 14:19
All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:191 voice
“And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean,.... Which the Targum of Jonathan thus paraphrases;’all flies and wasps (or hornets), and worms of lentiles and of beans, which are separated from food, and fly as birds, they are unclean;''See Gill on Lev 11:20; see Gill on Lev 11:21.”
John Gill · Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed