Joel 2:9

They shall run to and fro in the ir (city); 1 they shall run upon the chomah, 1 they shall climb up into the batim (houses); 1 they shall enter in at the windows like the ganav. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

In Context

8Neither shall one push another; 1 they shall walk every one in his own column; 1 and when they burst through defenses, 1 they shall not break ranks. 1

10The eretz shall quake before them; 1 the Shomayim shall tremble; 1 the shemesh and the yarei'ach shall be dark, 1 and the kokhavim shall withdraw their shining; 1

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Cross References

Exodus 10:14And the arbeh went up over kol Eretz Mitzrayim, and rested on the entire border of Mitzrayim: very grievous were they; before them there were no such arbeh as they, neither after them shall be such.

John 10:1Omein, omein, I say to you, the one not entering through the derech hasha'ar (way of the entrance) into the mikhla haTzon (fold [enclosure] of the sheep) but going up another derech, that one is a ganav and a shoded (robber). + 10:1 Rv 13:4

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 →

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