Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 2:25

25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmer-worm my great army which I sent among you.

Make up to you or compensate the lean years of Egypt did eat up the fat, but with you now the fat years shall feed, and enrich the lean ones.

By this it appears that this dreadful Famine by these Insects was longer then of one years continuance, and perhaps countenanceth the Jewish conjecture of four because four sorts of Insects are mentioned. These in the late years devoured the fruit of the Earth, but now God will restore the fruits.

All recounted, chap. 1.4. with little variation of the order wherein named.

Vid. ver. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

There was somewhat extraordinary in these Armies of Insects by which the people then living and afflicted by them, might see they were sent immediately from Heaven, though History do not report it to us.

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