Joel 2:8
They rush straight ahead without pushing each other. Even though people throw spears and javelins at them, that will not cause them to stop.
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2 Chronicles 32:5Then they worked hard to repair all the sections of the city wall that had been broken, and they built watchtowers on the walls. They built another wall outside/around the wall that was already outside the city, and they strengthened the defenses on the sloping terraces on the east side of the area called ‘The City of David’. They also made a large number of weapons and shields.
Nehemiah 4:23During that time, none of us ever took off our clothes (OR, we wore our clothes all the time)—I and my relatives and my workers and the guards who were with me. And we had our weapons with us, in our hands.
Job 36:12But if they do not ◄listen/pay attention► to him, they will die violently, not knowing why God is causing them to die.
Song of Solomon 4:13You are like [MET] an orchard of pomegranate trees full of delicious fruit, and plenty of plants that produce henna and nard spices,
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 →