Joel 2:7
As 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:
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
6Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a caldron.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:23Saul and Jonathan, the beloved and the beautiful, were not divided: 1 Comely were they in their life, and in their death they were not divided: 1 They were swifter than eagles, 1 And they were stronger than lions. 1
2 Samuel 5:8And David said on that day, Every one that smites the Jebusite, let him attack with the dagger both the lame and the blind, and those that hate the soul of David. Therefore they say, The lame and the blind shall not enter into the house of the Lord.
Psalms 19:5Grant thee according to thy heart, 1 And fulfill all thy desire. 1
Isaiah 5:26Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming very quickly.
Joel 2:9They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.
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 →