Joel 2:7
The locusts climb over walls like soldiers do; they march along in columns and never turn aside from their columns.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
6When people see them coming, they become very pale and frightened.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:23“Saul and Jonathan were loved and they pleased many people. They were together [LIT] while they lived and when they died. In battles they were swifter than eagles and they were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 5:8On that day, David said to his soldiers, “Those who want to get rid of the Jebus people-group should go through the water tunnel to enter the city. Then they can attack those people whom I [SYN] detest— and we will find out if any blind and crippled people will be able to stop them!” That is why people say, “Blind and crippled people cannot enter Yahweh’s temple.”
Psalms 19:5it rises each morning like a bridegroom who is happy as he comes out of his bedroom after his wedding. It is like a strong athlete who is very eager to start running in a race.
Isaiah 5:26Yahweh will send a signal to summon armies of nations far away; it is as though he will whistle to summon those soldiers who are in very remote places on the earth. They will come very swiftly [DOU] to Jerusalem.
Joel 2:9They swarm over the city walls and enter our houses; they enter through our windows like [SIM] thieves do.
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 →