Joel 1

Chap. I. Ver. 1—20. | Israel invaded by a nation of locusts. ’ Chap. I. Ver. 4. That which, &c.—See margin. Four species of locust are mentioned. Some have thought that these predictions may have a farther reference to the army of the Assyrians: but for this we find no sufficient ground. No body of armed men (not even that of Xerxes) was ever half so numerous, half so tormenting or destructive, as an army of these noxious insects, who, while they lived, were a plague, and created a pestilence when they died.