Bible Cross References
The locusts
Exodus 10:4-6
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If you keep on refusing, then I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.
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There will be so many that they will completely cover the ground. They will eat everything that the hail did not destroy, even the trees that are left.
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They will fill your palaces and the houses of all your officials and all your people. They will be worse than anything your ancestors ever saw.' " Then Moses turned and left.
Exodus 10:13-15
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So Moses raised his stick, and the LORD caused a wind from the east to blow on the land all that day and all that night. By morning it had brought the locusts.
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They came in swarms and settled over the whole country. It was the largest swarm of locusts that had ever been seen or that ever would be seen again.
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They covered the ground until it was black with them; they ate everything that the hail had left, including all the fruit on the trees. Not a green thing was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
Psalm 105:34
He commanded, and the locusts came, countless millions of them;
Joel 1:4
Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.
Joel 1:6
An army of locusts has attacked our land; they are powerful and too many to count; their teeth are as sharp as those of a lion.
Joel 1:7
They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white.
Joel 2:7-11
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They attack like warriors; they climb the walls like soldiers. They all keep marching straight ahead and do not change direction
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or get in each other's way. They swarm through defenses, and nothing can stop them.
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They rush against the city; they run over the walls; they climb up the houses and go in through the windows like thieves.
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The earth shakes as they advance; the sky trembles. The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine.
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The LORD thunders commands to his army. The troops that obey him are many and mighty. How terrible is the day of the LORD! Who will survive it?
Joel 2:25-11
Revelation 9:3-11
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Locusts came down out of the smoke upon the earth, and they were given the same kind of power that scorpions have.
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They were told not to harm the grass or the trees or any other plant; they could harm only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads.
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The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting.
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During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.
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The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.
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Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth.
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Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breastplates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.
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They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.
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They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning "The Destroyer").