Topic
Locust, The
27 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 10:4–15Torrey One of the plagues of Egypt
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which…
- Exodus 10:13Torrey Carried every way by the wind
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:15Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Voracious
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field,…
- Exodus 10:19Torrey Carried every way by the wind
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
- Leviticus 11:21Torrey Clean and fit for food
Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
- Leviticus 11:22Torrey Clean and fit for food
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
- Deuteronomy 28:38Torrey THE JEWS — Threatened with, as a punishment for sin
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:42Torrey THE JEWS — Threatened with, as a punishment for sin
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
- 1 Kings 8:37Torrey THE JEWS — Deprecated the plague of
¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
- 1 Kings 8:38Torrey THE JEWS — Deprecated the plague of
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
- 2 Chronicles 7:13Torrey THE JEWS — Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
- 2 Chronicles 7:14Torrey THE JEWS — Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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- Psalms 105:34 Torrey Immensely numerous
- Proverbs 30:24 Torrey A small insect
- Proverbs 30:27 Torrey A small insect
- Isaiah 33:4 Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Rapid in movement
- Joel 1:4 Torrey THE JEWS — Often plagued by
- Joel 1:6 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of destructive enemies
- Joel 1:7 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of destructive enemies
- Joel 2:2–9 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of destructive enemies
- Joel 2:4 Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Like to horses prepared for battle
- Joel 2:25 Torrey THE JEWS — Often plagued by
- Nahum 3:15 Torrey Immensely numerous
- Nahum 3:17 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of ungodly rulers
- Matthew 3:4 Torrey THE JEWS — Used as food
- Revelation 9:3 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of false teachers of the apostasy
- Revelation 9:7 Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Like to horses prepared for battle
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 31 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.