Joel 2:5
As the noise of chariots, they skip on the tops of the mountains, || As the noise of a flame of fire devouring stubble, || As a mighty people set in array for battle.
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In Context
4As the appearance of horses [is] its appearance, || And as horsemen, so they run.
6Pained are peoples from its face, || All faces have gathered paleness.
Cross References
Job 39:20Do you cause him to rush as a locust? The splendor of his snorting [is] terrible.
Isaiah 30:30And YHWH has caused || The splendor of His voice to be heard, || And the coming down of His arm || He shows with the raging of anger, || And the flame of a consuming fire, || Scattering, and inundation, and hailstone.
Nahum 3:2The sound of a whip, || And the sound of the rattling of a wheel, || And of a prancing horse, and of a bounding chariot, || Of a horseman mounting.
Revelation 9:9and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings—as the noise of chariots of many horses running to 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 →