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	Nave's—Locust

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