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Selected Verse: Psalms 78:46 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 78:46 |
King James |
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
caterpillar--the Hebrew name, from its voracity, and that of--
locust--from its multitude. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar - The increase or the produce of their fields. Exo 10:12-14. The word חסיל châsı̂yl - is supposed to denote a species of locust rather than the caterpillar. It literally means the devourer. In our version, however, it is uniformly rendered caterpillar as here; Kg1 8:37; Ch2 6:28; Isa 33:4; Joe 1:4; Joe 2:25. It occurs nowhere else.
And their labor unto the locust - The fruit of their labor; the harvests in their fields. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Labour - The herbs which were come up by their care and labour. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The caterpillar and - the locust - See on Exo 10:13 (note). |
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
4 That which the palmerworm 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 caterpiller eaten.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
37 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;
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
13 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.
14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
13 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.