Locusts
From Eco-Bible 1
These are notes for an incomplete "Concept" page.
- Information is being added as the Bible Pages are added. In the end, everything will be compiled, further information added (as necessary), broken links connected, etc.
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Listed as a subcategory under: Ecological Judgments and Insects and Similar Creatures.
Locusts are described as one of the "kinds" of creatures (Hebrew word, min). They are described as ceremonially "clean" creatures, and may be used as food. They are used by God as a means to judge the wicked; and are used symbolically to describe large masses of people, such as an invading army.
[Entries below began w/ 1 Kings (with a few others added). Use search function "locust*" for other passages!]
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- With ongoing disobedience/rebellion: Locusts will eat your crops; worms (probably insect larvae) will eat your grapes, etc.
1 Kings 9:1-9 & 2 Chronicles 7:12-22
- If God sends locusts (because of their wickedness)... and they repent, God will heal the land.
- Its galloping or leaping of a war horse is compared to the jumping of a locust.
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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