For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in (A)like locusts in number, and both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to ruin it.

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They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.(A) It was impossible to count them or their camels;(B) they invaded the land to ravage it.

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12 Now the Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the [a]people of the east were lying in the valley (A)as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, (B)as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

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  1. Judges 7:12 Lit sons

12 The Midianites, the Amalekites(A) and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts.(B) Their camels(C) could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.(D)

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25 “Then I will compensate you for the years
That the [a]swarming (A)locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust—
My great army which I sent among you.

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  1. Joel 2:25 Or migratory

25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts(A) have eaten(B)
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm[a]
my great army(C) that I sent among you.

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  1. Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.