Joel 2:5
Listen to the sound: they are like rumbling chariots leaping over the mountain tops, they are like crackling flames burning stubble, they are like a mighty army marching in formation into battle.
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4They have the appearance of horses; they charge like cavalry.
6Terror seizes all those in their path; all the people's faces grow pale.
Cross References
Job 39:20Did you make it able to jump like a locust? Its loud snorting is terrifying!
Isaiah 30:30The Lord will shout so everyone hears him he will reveal his great power. He will hit out in his anger and fury, with a fire that burns everything up, and with torrential rain, storm, and hail.
Nahum 3:2Listen to the noise: whips crack, wheels clatter, horses gallop, chariots rattle!
Revelation 9:9Their breastplates looked like they were made of iron, and the noise made by their wings sounded like many horses and chariots racing into battle.
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 →