Proverbs 30:27
Locusts—they don't have a king, but they all march in line abreast.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
In Context
26Hyraxes —they don't have much power, but they make their homes in the rock.
28Lizards—you can catch them in your hands, but they live in the king's palace.
Cross References
Exodus 10:13Moses held out his staff over Egypt, and all through that day and night the Lord sent an east wind blowing over the land. By the time morning came the east wind had brought in the locusts.
Exodus 10:15They covered the ground until it looked black, and they ate up all the plants in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that had been left by the hail. Not a single green leaf was left on any tree or plant anywhere in Egypt.
Joel 1:4What the cutting locusts left, the swarming locusts have eaten; what the swarming locusts left, the hopping locusts have eaten; what the hopping locusts left, the destroying locusts have eaten.
Joel 2:7They attack like mighty warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. They all march as one, never breaking ranks.
Joel 2:25“I will give back to you what you lost over the years to the swarming, hopping, destroying, and cutting locusts, this great army that I sent against you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:25-29
Four Things Little and Wise. 24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. I. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four… Read the whole commentary →