Joel 2:5
Like the noise of merkavot (chariots) 1 on the tops of mountains shall they leap, 1 like the noise of a flame of eish that devoureth the stubble, 1 as a strong people drawn up in milchamah (battle). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4The appearance of them is as the appearance of susim; 1 and as horsemen, so shall they run. 1
6Before their face, the amim (nations) shall be in anguish; 1 every face turns pale. 1
Cross References
Job 39:20Canst thou make him leap like an arbeh (locust)? 1 The hod (glory) of his snorting strikes terror. 1
Isaiah 30:30And Hashem shall cause His glorious voice to be heard, and shall cause the lowering of His zero'a to be seen, with the indignation of His anger, and with the flame of a devouring eish, with smashing, and tempest, and even barad (stones of hail, hailstones).
Nahum 3:2The crack of the shot (whip), 1 and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, 1 and of the prancing susim, 1 and of the jolting merkavah (chariot); 1
Revelation 9:9and they had breastplates like iron breastplates and the sound of the wings of them was as the sound of many merkavot (chariots) with susim (horses) racing into the sadeh krav (battlefield), + 9:9 Yoel 2:5
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 →