Joel 2:8

No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

In Context

7They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

9They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:5Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

Nehemiah 4:23So not one of us, I or my brothers or my servants or the watchmen who were with me, took off his clothing, everyone went armed to the water.

Job 36:12But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

Song of Solomon 4:13The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,

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 →

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