If I command the locusts to devour the land That is, use my authority and power over them to cause them to do so. A metaphor elsewhere used in reference to irrational animals, as 1 Kings 17:4; Amos 9:3, which are not properly capable of receiving a command, or of paying obedience to it. Other national judgments are here supposed, such as famine, war, and the ravages of savage beasts.
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2 Chronicles 7:13
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;