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Joel 2:4
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2 aA day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.
bA people come, great and strong,
cThe like of whom has never been;
Nor will there ever be any such after them,
Even for many successive generations. 
3 A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like athe Garden of Eden before them,
bAnd behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them. 
4 aTheir appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like1 swift steeds, so they run. 
5 aWith a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array. 
6 Before them the people writhe in pain;
aAll faces1 are drained of color. 
Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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Joel 2:4

The appearance of them, is as the appearance of horses - " If you carefully consider the head of the locust," says Theodoret, a Bishop in Syria, "you will find it exceedingly like that of a horse." Whence the Arabs, of old and to this day , say; "In the locust, slight as it is, is the nature of ten of the larger animals, the face of a horse, the eyes of an elephant, the neck of abull, the horns of a deer, the chest of a lion, the belly of a scorpion, the wings of an eagle, the thighs of a camel, the feet of an ostrich, the tail of a serpent."




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Joel 2:4:

Job 39:20
Job 39:20
Revelation 6:2
Revelation 9:7
Revelation 9:7
Revelation 9:9

 

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