Joel 2:5
Like the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains, they leap; like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so they run.
6Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.
Cross References
Job 39:20Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
Isaiah 30:30And Jehovah will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and will shew the lighting down of his arm with indignation of anger, and a flame of consuming fire, with waterflood and storm and hailstones.
Nahum 3:2The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!
Revelation 9:9and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to war;
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 →