Joel 2:5
Like rattling chariots they leap on the tops of the mountains; Like the crackling flame of fire, which devoureth stubble; Like a mighty host set in battle array.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, And like horsemen do they run;
6Before them the people tremble, And all faces gather blackness.
Cross References
Job 39:20Hast thou taught him to bound like the locust? How majestic his snorting! how terrible!
Isaiah 30:30Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, And the blow of his arm to be seen, With furious anger, and flames of devouring fire; With flood, and storm, and hailstones.
Nahum 3:2[[Hark!]] The noise of the whip! The noise of the rattling of the wheels, And of the prancing horses, And of the bounding chariots!
Revelation 9:9And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound 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 →