Joel 2:8

Neither doth one thrust another; they march every one in his path: and they burst through the weapons, and break not off their course.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

In Context

7They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks.

9They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:5And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall without, and strengthened Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

Nehemiah 4:23So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one went with his weapon to the water.

Job 36:12But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Song of Solomon 4:13Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants,

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 →

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