Joel 2:5
They jump with a noise like that of chariots on the tops of the mountains, 1 like the noise of fiery flames that devour the stubble, 1 like a mighty army ready for battle. 1
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4The army's appearance is like horses, 1 and they run like horsemen. 1
6At their presence people are in anguish 1 and all their faces become pale. 1
Cross References
Job 39:20Have you ever made him jump like a locust? 1 The majesty of his snorting is fearsome. 1
Isaiah 30:30Yahweh will make the splendor of his voice heard and show the motion of his arm 1 in storming anger and flames of fire, with windstorm, rainstorm, and hailstones. 1
Nahum 3:2But now there is the noise of whips and the sound of rattling wheels, 1 prancing horses, and bounding chariots. 1
Revelation 9:9They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound made by many chariots and horses running into battle.
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 →