From Nave’s Topical Bible
Locust
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.
- 20Passages listed
- 15Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Authorized as foodLeviticus 11:22
- Used as foodMatthew 3:4Mark 1:6
- Plague ofExodus 10:1–19Psalms 105:34Psalms 105:35
- Devastation byDeuteronomy 28:381 Kings 8:372 Chronicles 7:13Isaiah 33:4Joel 1:4–7Revelation 9:7–10
- Sun obscured byJoel 2:2Joel 2:10
- Instincts ofProverbs 30:27
- In A. V. often inaccurately translated "grasshopper," as inJudges 6:5Judges 7:12Job 39:20Jeremiah 46:23
- See Grasshopper
- FIGURATIVEJeremiah 46:23
- SYMBOLICALRevelation 9:3–10
The passages, in Bible order (20)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 10:1–19
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
Commentary on Exodus 10:1–191 voice
And the Lord said unto Moses, go in unto Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Leviticus 11:22
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Commentary on Leviticus 11:221 voice
Even these of them ye may eat, &c.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 28:38
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:381 voice
Thou shall carry much seed into the field,.... And sow it plentifully; this and what is said in some following verses plainly refer to them while in their own land, before carried captive, and not to their present case and circumstances: and shall gather but little in at harvest; little springing up, or not coming to perfection, being blighted and blasted, and so yielded but a small crop; see Hag 1:9; and chiefly for the following reason: for the locust shall consume it; which is a great destroyer of the fruits of the earth; see Joe 1:4.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 6:5
For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
Commentary on Judges 6:51 voice
For they came up with their cattle, and their tents,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 7:12
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Commentary on Judges 7:121 voice
And the Midianites and the Amalekites, and the children of the east,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 8:37
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- 2 Chronicles 7:13
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
- Job 39:20
Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
Commentary on Job 39:201 voice
Wilt thou rouse him as the locusts? 45. By the name 'locusts' is sometimes signified the Jewish people, sometimes the converted Gentiles, sometimes the tongue of flatterers, but sometimes, by comparison, the Resurrection of the Lord, or the life of preachers. For, that locusts express the people of the Jews, the life of John points out to us; of whom it is written; He did eat locusts and wild honey. [Mark 1, 6] For John proclaims, even in the kind of his food, Him, Whom he foretells with the authority of prophecy.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXI, 604Patristic
- Psalms 105:34
He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
Commentary on Psalms 105:341 voice
He spake, and the locusts came,.... A great army of them, and covered the land, that it was even darkened by them; and were such as had never been seen before, or ever were since; this is the eighth plague, Exo 10:12, with these compare the locusts in Rev 9:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 105:35
They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
Commentary on Psalms 105:351 voice
And did eat up all the herbs in their land,.... As these creatures usually do, unless restrained, Exo 10:5. And devoured the fruit of their ground; which the hail left, Exo 10:15.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 30:27
the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
Commentary on Proverbs 30:271 voice
I do not quote these words, however, as taking them in their literal signification, but, agreeably to the title of the book (for it is entitled "Proverbs"), I investigate them as containing a secret meaning.
Origen of Alexandria· AGAINST CELSUS 4:87, 253Patristic
- Isaiah 33:4
Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
Commentary on Isaiah 33:42 voices
(Verse 2 and following) Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for you: be our strength in the morning, and our salvation in time of trouble. At the voice of the Angel, the people fled; at your exaltation the nations were scattered. And your spoil will be gathered, as the locust is gathered, as when the ditches are full of it. The Lord is magnified, for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with judgment and justice.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
As to the plundering of their spoils: and, you, O Assyrians, your spoils shall be gathered together, by the Jews, above: they shall rejoice before you, as they that rejoice in taking a prey, when they divide the spoils (Isa 9:3).
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
- Jeremiah 46:23
They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.
Commentary on Jeremiah 46:231 voice
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord,.... The land of Egypt, compared to a forest, for the multitude of its cities and towns, and the inhabitants of them; which should be destroyed by the Chaldeans, as a forest is cut down by hewers of wood; the metaphor is here continued.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joel 1:4–7
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
Commentary on Joel 1:4–71 voice
(Verse 4) The residue of a caterpillar is eaten by a locust, and the residue of a locust is eaten by a beetle, and the residue of the beetle is eaten by rust. In the same way seventy times. The beginning is followed by a narrative: there, to make the listener pay attention, he promised that he would say great and incredible things, which neither the ancient history nor the present age would know.
Jerome· Commentary on Joel, 420Patristic
- Joel 2:2
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
Commentary on Joel 2:21 voice
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joel 2:10
Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.