Joel 2:7
They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
In Context
6At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:23Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 5:8And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul. Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.
Psalms 19:5Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.
Isaiah 5:26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss 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 →