Joel 2:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

Joel 2:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 9:7
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

Topics

Archery Armies Battle Israel, Prophecies Concerning Nation War Warfare

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

Here we have God contending with his own professing people for their sins and executing upon them the judgment written in the law (Deut. 28:42), The fruit of thy land shall the locust consume, which was one of those diseases of Egypt that God would bring upon them, Deut. 28:60. I. Here is the war proclaimed (Joel 2:1): Blow the trumpet in Zion, either to call the invading army together, and then t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. appearance ... of horses--(Re 9:7). Not literal, but figurative locusts. The fifth trumpet, or first woe, in the parallel passage (Re 9:1-11), cannot be literal: for in Re 9:11 it is said, “they had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit”--in the Hebrew, Abaddon (“destroyer”), but in the Greek, Apollyon--and (Re 9:7) “on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces w…