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What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
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A Total, Successive Judgment
Commentators explain that the four different insects represent successive waves of a devastating locust plague. This wasn't a single bad season, but one disaster following another, leaving nothing behind. This illustrates the thoroughness and severity of God's judgment, showing His sovereign power over all creation to accomplish His purposes.
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Joel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That which the palmerworm hath left, hath the locust eaten - The creatures mentioned here are different kinds of locusts, so named …
19th Century
Anglican
That which the palmerworm has left.— The picture is introduced suddenly and graphically. “Behold the desolation!” “Note t…
16th Century
Protestant
The word of Jehovah which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. He names his father here; it is therefore probable that he was a well-known ma…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That which the palmer worm has left has the locust eaten , &c.] These, with the two following, are four kinds of, lo…
The oldest people could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat its fruits. Th…
