Joel 2:5
They leap like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.
6At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have grown pale.
Cross References
Job 39:20Have thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
Isaiah 30:30And LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the coming down of his arm with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast and tempest and hailstones.
Nahum 3:2The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
Revelation 9:9And they had breastplates like iron breastplates. And the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle.
Matthew Henry on Joel 2:2-12
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them… Read the whole commentary →