Joel 2:5

As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

In Context

4Their appearance is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they pursue.

6Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a + 2:6 Or, pot.caldron.

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Cross References

Job 39:20And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?

Isaiah 30:30And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail.

Nahum 3:2The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot,

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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