Joel 2:5
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, shall they rattle along, like the noise of a flame of fire, devouring dry straw,—like a people bold, arrayed for battle.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4As the appearance of horses, is his appearance, and, as war-horses, so, shall they run:
6Because of him, shall peoples’, be in anguish,—all faces, have withdrawn their colour.
Cross References
Job 39:20Couldst thou cause him to leap like a locust? The majesty of his snort, is a terror!
Isaiah 30:30Then will Yahweh cause to be heard—the resounding of his voice And the bringing down of his arm, shall be seen, In a rage of anger, And with the flame of a devouring fire,—A burst and a downpour, and a hailstone!
Nahum 3:2The sound of the whip, and the sound of the rushing wheel,—and horse galloping, and dancing chariot rattling along.
Revelation 9:9and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and, the sound of their wings, was as the sound of chariots of many 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 →