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Proverbs 30

Prov. 30:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The locusts
'arbeh (Hebrew #697)
a locust (from its rapid increase)
KJV usage: grasshopper, locust.
Pronounce: ar-beh'
Origin: from 7235
have no king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
, yet go they forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
all of them γby bands
chatsats (Hebrew #2686)
properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); as denom. from 2671, to shoot an arrow
KJV usage: archer, X bands, cut off in the midst.
Pronounce: khaw-tsats'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2673)
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γ
gathered together.

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The locusts.
Ex. 10:4‑6,13‑15• 4For, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, I will to-morrow bring locusts into thy borders;
 5and they shall cover the face of the land, so that ye will not be able to see the land; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which ye have remaining from the hail, and shall eat every tree which ye have growing in the field;
 6and they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy bondmen, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
 13And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
 14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt, very grievous; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such.
 15And they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing on the trees, and in the herbs of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. (Ex. 10:4‑6,13‑15)
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Psa. 105:34• 34He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number; (Psa. 105:34)
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Joel 1:4,6‑7• 4that which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
 6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness.
 7He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white. (Joel 1:4,6‑7)
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Joel 2:7‑11,25• 7They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and break not their ranks.
 8Neither doth one press upon another; they march every one in his path; and fall amid weapons, but are not wounded.
 9They spread themselves over the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in by the windows like a thief.
 10The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
 11And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for strong is he that executeth his word: for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can bear it?
 25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:7‑11,25)
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Rev. 9:3‑11• 3And out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have power;
 4and it was said to them, that they should not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but the men who have not the seal of God on their foreheads:
 5and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
 6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.
 7And the likenesses of the locusts were like to horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men;
 8and they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as of lions,
 9and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to war;
 10and they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and their power was in their tails to hurt men five months.
 11They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in Greek he has for name Apollyon. (Rev. 9:3‑11)
by bands.
Heb. gathered together.
• They go forth by bands, like soldiers in their respective regiments. So methodical are they that they seem to be acting under definite instructions and in strictest discipline. To those who have found a refuge in Christ they furnish an example of that subjection one to another, and to our unseen Head in heaven, that might well shame us as we contemplate the broken, scattered condition of the people of God, and reflect upon our share in the terrible ruin. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)
• If “there is one body,” and the Word of God knows no other, I should own my membership in that alone, and by obedience to the truth, walk worthy of the vocation wherewith I am called. The locusts all act together, and this it is that declares their wisdom. So should it be with the body of Christ. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;