Joel 2:5
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains do they leap; they are like the noise of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, as a strong people arrayed for a battle.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
4Like the appearance of horses is its appearance; and like horsemen, so do they run.
6At its presence the people are much pained: all the faces are covered with blackness.
Cross References
Job 39:20Canst thou make him jump like a locust? his majestic snort is terrible.
Isaiah 30:30And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard, and will show the stretching down of his arm, in the indignation of [his] anger, and in the flame of a devouring fire, in flood, and tempest, and stones of hail.
Nahum 3:2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and of prancing horses, and of the skipping chariots.
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 →