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Please notice the Hebrew word ‘arbeh which sounds like the root for ‘arab’.

Please notice the following word study regarding the original word ‘arbeh which in Hebrew may sound like the word ‘Arab’ and in the text by another believer who presented this on:

http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?Strongs=0697&version=KJV&cscs=Joe

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[L]ocusts generally come out of the eastern parts: it was an east wind which brought the plague of locusts into Egypt (Exo 10:13); and the children of the east, the Arabians, are compared to grasshoppers, or locusts,

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.–Judges 7:12

[Midianite--son of Abraham by Keturah and progenitor of the tribe of Midianites or Arabians; the territory of the tribe descended from Midian; located principally in the desert north of the Arabian Peninsula; land to which Moses went when he fled from Pharaoh--Strong's

Amalekites-descendants of Esau.

grasshopper--Strong's 0697 'arbeh translated as locust 24 times in AV and 4 times as grasshopper]

and one of the names of a locust is, “Arbeh,” not much unlike in sound to an Arab. To which may be added, that it is a tradition of the Arabians, that there fell locusts into the hands of Mahomet [Mohammad], on whose backs and wings were written these words;

“we are the army of the most high God; we are the ninety and nine eggs, and if the hundred should be made perfect, we should consume the whole world, and whatever is in it.”

And it was a law established by Mahomet, ye shall not kill the locusts, for they are the army of the most high God; and the Mahometans fancy that the locusts were made of the same clay as Adam was: and besides the tradition before mentioned, they say, that as Mahomet sat at table a locust fell, with these words on its back and wings;

“I am God, neither is there any Lord of the locusts besides me, who feed them; and when I please I send them to be food to the people, and when I please I send them to be a scourge unto them;”

…five months is the time that locusts live, and are in their strength and power, even the five, hottest months in the year, from April to September.

(The New John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible)

A natural plague of locust fits the the text perfectly here.

Please notice the wesley commentary on Joel, also, which talks of the locust army invaders as a lion with teeth and states ‘he’ in allusion to the king that comes and conquers the northern kingdom of Israel and lays seize by oppressive tribute to the Judah in taxation tribute exacted by Assyria and the Assyrian empire.