Joel 2:7
They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like men of war, and they march each one on his ways. And they do not break their ranks.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have grown pale.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:23Saul and Jonathan, men who were loved and pleasant, undivided; comely in their lives, and undivided in their death; swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 5:8And David said on that day, Whoever smites the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and [smite] the lame and the blind, the hated by David's soul, because the blind and the lame say, He cannot come into the house.
Psalms 19:5which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run his course.
Isaiah 5:26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will whistle for them from the end of the earth, and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.
Joel 2:9They leap upon the city. They run upon the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like a thief.
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 →