Proverbs 30:27
Locusts do not have a king, but they march like the soldiers in an army.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
In Context
26Rock badgers also are not strong, but they make their homes among the rocks where they will be safe.
Cross References
Exodus 10:13So Moses/I held out his/my stick as though he/I was stretching it over the whole land of Egypt. Then Yahweh caused a strong wind to blow from the east, and it blew over the land all that day and all that night. By the next morning, it had brought the locusts.
Exodus 10:15They covered the surface of the ground and made it appear black. They ate all the plants in the land and everything on the trees that had not been destroyed by the hail. Nothing that was green was left on any plant or on any tree, anywhere in Egypt.
Joel 1:4I am talking about the locusts that have eaten our crops. The first swarm of locusts came and cut many of the leaves of the crops; then another swarm came and ate the rest of the leaves, then another swarm came hopping along, and finally another swarm came and they destroyed everything else.
Joel 2:7The locusts climb over walls like soldiers do; they march along in columns and never turn aside from their columns.
Joel 2:25Yahweh said, “I will repay you for everything that was destroyed by those great swarms of locusts that I sent to attack 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 →