Joel 1:4

That which the locust swarm hath left 1 hath the arbeh (great locust) eaten; 1 and that which the arbeh hath left 1 hath the crawling locust eaten; 1 and that which the crawling locust hath left 1 hath the other locust eaten. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3Tell ye your banim (children) of it, 1 and let your banim tell their banim, 1 and their banim to the next generation. 1

5Awake, ye shikkorim (drunkards), and weep; 1 and wail, all ye drinkers of yayin, 1 because of the new wine, for it is cut off 1 from your mouth. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 10:4Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, hineni, tomorrow will I bring the arbeh into thy border;

Exodus 10:14And the arbeh went up over kol Eretz Mitzrayim, and rested on the entire border of Mitzrayim: very grievous were they; before them there were no such arbeh as they, neither after them shall be such.

Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carry much zera out into the sadeh, and shalt gather but little in; for the arbeh shall devour it.

1 Kings 8:37If there be in HaAretz ra'av, if there be dever, blight, mildew, arbeh, or if there be grasshopper; if their oyev besiege them in the eretz of their she'arim; whatsoever nega (plague), whatsoever machalah (disease) there be;

2 Chronicles 7:13When I shut up Shomayim that there be no matar, or when I command the locusts to devour HaAretz, or when I send dever among Ami (My People);

Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the arbeh (locusts) came, 1 and grasshoppers, and that without number, 1

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8

Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →

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