Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Joel 2:7
RV 'They run.. they climb.. they march.. they break not.'
RV 'They run.. they climb.. they march.. they break not.'
Verse 7. _LIKE MIGHTY MEN-LIKE MEN OF WAR_ (_and as horsemen_, Joel 2:4)] The prophet does not say _they are such_, but they _resemble_. They are _locusts_; but in their operations they are LIKE the a...
THEY SHALL RUN LIKE MIGHTY MEN - They are on God’s message, and they linger not, “but rejoice to run their course” Psalms 19:5. “The height of walls cannot hinder the charge of the mighty; they enter...
II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE REPENTANCE AND RESTORATION OF ISRAEL CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The alarm sounded and the day at hand (Joel 2:1) _ 2. The invading army from the north (Joel 2:3) 3. The rep...
LET THE ALARM BE SOUNDED, FOR THE LOCUSTS ARE PRECURSORS OF THE DAY OF YAHWEH. Speaking in Yahweh's name the prophet bids the priests sound the alarm from Mt. Zion, that all the community may realise...
MEN. Heir plural of _'enosh_. App-14....
Further description of the march of the locusts. They move on like some mighty host: the noise of their approach is heard from afar; they spread terror before them; their advance is irresistible; the...
The signs of the approaching Day. _A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness_ So Zephaniah 1:15. Four synonyms are combined, for the purpose of emphasizing the darkness, whi...
Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17 Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may yet be averted by the nation...
_They_ RUN _like mighty_men] i.e. _like warriors_, which is what the word (_gibbôr_) regularly denotes (2 Samuel 23:8; and comp. on Amos 2:14). _To run_means here _to charge_: cf. Psalms 18:29;...
The attack, anticipated by the peoples with alarm (Joel 2:6) now follows: the onward movement of the locusts is compared to that of a well-appointed army: nothing impedes their advance; there is no di...
_THE DAY OF THE LORD IS GREAT -- JOEL 2:1-11:_ The trumpet was blown to warn the nation of danger and invasion. The warning was sounded in order that the people could tremble and make matters right wi...
THEY SHALL RUN, &C.— Bochart again shews how exactly this description agrees with the locusts; first, _They shall run._ Now their manner of fighting is thus described; they strike or wound, not as the...
THE EXECUTORGOD USING NATURAL AGENTS TEXT: Joel 2:1-11 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 Jehovah c...
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Depicting the regular military order of...
THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 2 THE ARMY OF *LOCUSTS V1 Blow the *trumpet in *Zion. Tell the people on the *Lord’s hill to watch for trouble....
(7-9) THEY SHALL RUN LITE MIGHTY MEN. — The onward irresistible march of the invaders is graphically described by the illustration of the advance of locusts. They appear on the mountains which environ...
כְּ גִבֹּורִ֣ים יְרֻצ֔וּן כְּ אַנְשֵׁ֥י מִלְחָמָ֖ה...
THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they worked are des...
A SUMMONS TO PENITENCE Joel 1:1-20; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory...
Having thus dealt with the actual visitation and its terrible devastation, and having called the people into the place of humiliation, the prophet rose to a higher level, and interpreted the visitatio...
_Ranks. Locusts march like a regular army. (Theodoret) --- No fortification can keep them out. (Haydock)_...
It will be very easy for a child of God to make a gracious improvement of what is here said, if read spiritually with an eye to soul exercises, in the conflicts of flesh and spirit, when once a life o...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than Jonah), but differs ess...
Joel 2:1 sounds the alarm, because the day is near. The day is then described as the invasion of a people, the like of whom had never been seen by Israel or the land. It was, in fact, the army of Jeho...
THEY SHALL RUN LIKE MIGHTY MEN,.... Like men of war, in a hostile way, as soldiers run upon their enemy with undaunted courage and bravery. Bochart from Pisidas describes the locusts' manner of fighti...
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Ver. 7. _They shall run like mighty men_]...
_They shall run like mighty men_ They shall proceed everywhere like stout and mighty men, who are afraid of nothing. The description here given agrees perfectly to locusts, as Bochart has shown. “Firs...
They shall run like mighty men, straightforward to the attack; THEY SHALL CLIMB THE WALL LIKE MEN OF WAR, in an advance that cannot be stopped; AND THEY SHALL MARCH EVERY ONE ON HIS WAYS, AND THEY SHA...
THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...
1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven aga...
THEY, locusts, and they who by the locusts are signified, viz. Chaldeans, Assyrians, or Babylonians, SHALL RUN, with speed, fierceness, and irresistible power, against their enemies. MIGHTY MEN; valia...
Joel 2:7 run H7323 (H8799) men H1368 climb H5927 (H8799) wall H2346 men H582 war H4421 one H37
THE MARCH OF THE YOUNG LOCUST/GRASSHOPPERSS (JOEL 2:4). Joel then describes the onward ‘march' of the young locusts in their mass movement made up of sheer numbers, advancing like a huge ‘army' coveri...
CONTENTS: Day of vengeance upon Israel. Invading hosts and awful scourges. Repentance of the Jewish remnant and Jehovah's response and deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Joel. CONCLUSION: The...
Joel 2:1. _Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,_ to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2. Joel 2:2. _A day of darkness, nigrum esse._ The army of locusts obscured the light whil...
JOEL 2:1 Army Invasion: The Arrival of the Day of the Lord. Joel describes the coming of an army, whose arrival may yet be prevented by a wholehearted return to the Lord. Verses Joel 2:1 describe the...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:7 THEY DO NOT SWERVE.... THEY DO NOT JOSTLE. This army cannot be moved from its assigned course. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter still urges repentance, directs for a meeting of the people, and assures that God will have compassion. JOEL 2:1. BLOW] Priests must sound an alarm, as if foreign invasi...
EXPOSITION JOEL 2:1 These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned by the locusts and the appearance presented by them; the calling of a congregational meeting for penitence a...
Now he uses this as the springboard and he begins to speak now of a yet future day of devastation that is coming from armies that are to invade the land. And in the second chapter, as he describes thi...
2 Samuel 1:23; 2 Samuel 2:18; 2 Samuel 2:19; 2 Samuel 5:8; Isaiah 5:26
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF JOEL Joel 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The Book of Joel anticipates the day of Jehovah. The 1st chapter has a definite historical setting, but it also looks forward in anticipatio...
Their ranks — This skill in ordering and the steadiness in keeping under, exactly like trained soldiers, foretells the terror and strength of both the armies signified by these locusts, and of the loc...