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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Joel 2:7

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 shall not break their ranks, this peculiarity being noted by all observers. It was and is vain to resist them by the means ordinarily used to stop the progress of an invading army.

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See also Joel 2:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MEN. Heir plural of _'enosh_. App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    REPENTANCE FOLLOWED BY RESTORATION Joel 2:1 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come (Joel 2:1). The advance of the locusts into the city...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'They run.. they climb.. they march.. they break not.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כְּ גִבֹּורִ֣ים יְרֻצ֔וּן כְּ אַנְשֵׁ֥י מִלְחָמָ֖ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Ranks. Locusts march like a regular army. (Theodoret) --- No fortification can keep them out. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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_]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 2:7 run H7323 (H8799) men H1368 climb H5927 (H8799) wall H2346 men H582 war H4421 one H37

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:7 THEY DO NOT SWERVE.... THEY DO NOT JOSTLE. This army cannot be moved from its assigned course. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 1:23; 2 Samuel 2:18; 2 Samuel 2:19; 2 Samuel 5:8; Isaiah 5:26

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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