Entomology
BIOL 409
Occurrences of the word 'Locust' in the NASB
The following list was taken from http://www.gospelcom.net/ , keyword "Locust"
References to Locusts as Agents of Judgment
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for [Ex 4:21; 7:13; Josh 11:20;
John 12:40; Rom 9:18] I have [Lit made heavy] hardened his heart and the heart
of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them,
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
'For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring
locusts into your territory.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "[Ex 7:19] Stretch out your hand over the land of
Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and
[Ex 10:5, 15] eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left."
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD directed
an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was
morning, the east wind brought the [Ps 78:46; 105:34] locusts.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
[Deut 28:38; Ps 78:46; 105:34; Joel 1:4, 7; 2:1-11; Rev 9:3] The locusts
came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt;
they were very numerous. There had never been so many locusts, nor
would there be so many again.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
So the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the
locusts and drove them into the [Lit Sea of Reeds] Red Sea; not one
locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
"[Is 5:10; Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6] You shall bring out much seed to the field but
you will gather in little, for [Ex 10:4; Joel 1:4] the locust will
consume it.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
"[Lev 26:16, 25, 26; Deut 28:21-23, 38-42] If there is famine in the land,
if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or
grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities,
whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
He gave also their crops to the [1 Kin 8:37; Ps 105:34] grasshopper And the
product of their labor to the [Ex 10:14] locust.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
He spoke, and [Ex 10:12-15] locusts came, And young locusts,
even without number,
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
What the [Deut 28:38; Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9] gnawing locust has left,
the swarming locust has eaten; And what the [Nah 3:15, 16] swarming
locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the
creeping locust has left, the [Is 33:4] stripping locust has
eaten.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
"Then I will make up to you for the years That the swarming [Joel 1:4-7;
2:2-11] locust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping
locust and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent
among you.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a [Joel 1:4;
Amos 4:9; Nah 3:15] locust-swarm when the spring crop began to
sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king's mowing.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
References to Locusts as
'These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, and the
devastating locust in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the
grasshopper in its kinds.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
Now John himself had [2 Kin 1:8; Zech 13:4; Matt 11:8; Mark 1:6] a garment
of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was [Lev
11:22] locusts and wild honey.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
John was clothed with camel's hair and wore [2 Kin 1:8] a leather belt
around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
References to Locusts as Extremely Large Number
For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come
in [Judg 7:12; 8:10] like locusts for number, both they and their
camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to devastate it.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying
in the valley [Judg 6:5; 8:10] as numerous as locusts; and their camels
were without number, [Josh 11:4] as numerous as the sand on the seashore.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
"They have cut down her [Jer 21:14] forest," declares the LORD; "Surely it
will no more be found, Even though they are now more numerous than [Judg 6:5;
7:12; Joel 2:25] locusts And are without number.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
The [Jer 49:13] LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely I will fill you
with a population like [Jer 51:27; Nah 3:15] locusts, And they will cry
out with shouts of victory over you."
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
[Is 13:2-5; 18:3; Jer 50:2; 51:12] Lift up a signal in the land, Blow a
trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon
against her the [Jer 50:3, 9] kingdoms of [Gen 8:4; 2 Kin 19:37; Is 37:38]
Ararat, Minni and [Gen 10:3] Ashkenaz; Appoint a marshal against her, Bring
up the [Jer 50:42] horses like bristly locusts.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
References to Locusts as Wonderful Witness of the Creator
"Do you make him [Joel 2:5] leap like the locust? His majestic [Jer
8:16] snorting is terrible.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
The locusts have no king, Yet all of them go out in [Joel 2:7] ranks;
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
I am passing [Ps 102:11] like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off [Ex
10:19; Job 39:20] like the locust.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
References to Locusts as Examples of Foolish Human Behavior
Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing
about men rush about on it.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)
Your [Rev 9:7] guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your [Jer 51:27]
marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold
day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.
(Whole Chapter:
In context:
)