Joel 2:8

and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in no wise be destroyed.

Brenton Septuagint

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

7As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:

9They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:5And Ezekias strengthened himself, and built all the wall that had been pulled down, and the towers, and another wall in front without, and fortified the strong place of the city of David, and prepared arms in abundance.

Nehemiah 4:23And I was there, and the watchmen behind me, and there was not a man of us that put off his garments.

Job 36:12But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.

Song of Solomon 4:13Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with 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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