Joel 2:4

The locusts resemble horses, and they run like [SIM] war horses.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

In Context

3It is as though the locusts bring flames of fire from which no one can escape. In front of them, the land was beautiful like [SIM] the garden of Eden, but behind them the land is like a desert and nothing survives.

5Leaping over the mountaintops, they make a noise like rumbling chariots, like [SIM] a mighty army that is preparing for a battle, or like [SIM] the roar of a fire that burns up stubble in a field.

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Cross References

Revelation 9:7The locusts looked like horses that are ready for battle. They had on their heads what looked like golden crowns. Their faces were like the faces of people.

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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