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, 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