Joel 2:5
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
In Context
4Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and they run as horsemen.
6At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
Cross References
Job 39:20Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
Isaiah 30:30The LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
Nahum 3:2The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
Revelation 9:9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of many chariots and horses rushing to war.
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 →