Joel 2:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and each shall march on his way, and they shall not break their ranks.

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  • Prov 30:27 : 27 The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them in ranks;
  • Isa 5:26-29 : 26 And he will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waists be loosed, nor the strap of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hooves shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.
  • Jer 5:10 : 10 Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
  • Joel 2:9 : 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses, they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
  • 2 Sam 1:23 : 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
  • 2 Sam 2:18-19 : 18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as fleet of foot as a wild gazelle. 19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he did not turn to the right or the left from following Abner.
  • 2 Sam 5:8 : 8 And David said on that day, Whoever gets up through the water shaft and strikes the Jebusites, the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Therefore, they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
  • Ps 19:5 : 5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

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  • Joel 2:8-10
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    84%

    8Neither shall one jostle another; each shall walk in his path, and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

    9They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses, they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

    10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble, the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

  • Joel 2:2-6
    5 verses
    79%

    2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spreads upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has never been anything like it, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

    3A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

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

    5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains they shall leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people arrayed for battle.

    6Before them the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness.

  • Nah 2:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

    4The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightning.

    5He shall recount his nobles: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.

  • Zech 10:5
    75%

    5And they shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in battle. And they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

  • Isa 5:27-29
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    75%

    27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waists be loosed, nor the strap of their shoes be broken:

    28Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hooves shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

  • Lev 26:37
    74%

    37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

  • Jer 6:23
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    23They shall hold the bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • Isa 13:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14And it will be as the hunted roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: every man will turn to his own people, and everyone will flee to his own land.

    15Everyone who is found will be thrust through; and everyone who is joined to them will fall by the sword.

  • Nah 2:1
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    1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • Jer 5:16
    72%

    16Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • Jer 46:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and do not look back: for fear is all around, says the LORD.

    6Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

  • Mic 2:13
    71%

    13The breaker has come up before them; they have broken up and have passed through the gate and are gone out by it, and their king shall pass before them, with the LORD at their head.

  • Judg 7:21
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    21And they stood every man in his place around the camp, and all the army ran, and cried out, and fled.

  • Amos 2:15-16
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    71%

    15Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself: neither shall he who rides the horse save himself.

    16And he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 7:16-17
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    71%

    16But those who escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, everyone for his iniquity.

    17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

  • Jer 50:42
    71%

    42They shall hold the bow and the spear: they are cruel, and will show no mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one set in order, like a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

  • Isa 21:15
    71%

    15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

  • Jer 4:29
    71%

    29The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell in it.

  • Hab 1:7-9
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    7They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

    8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves; their horsemen spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.

    9They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand.

  • Josh 8:6
    71%

    6(For they will come out after us) until we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first; therefore we will flee before them.

  • Lev 26:7
    70%

    7And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Ezek 26:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

    10Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you; your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached.

  • Jer 47:3
    70%

    3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

  • Joel 3:9
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    9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

  • Ezek 7:14
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    14They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle, for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

  • Jer 46:22
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    22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

  • Isa 40:31
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    31But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

  • Zech 10:12
    70%

    12And I will strengthen them in the LORD, and they shall walk in his name, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 12:12
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    12And the prince who is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out through it: he shall cover his face, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.

  • Isa 3:25
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    25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in battle.

  • Isa 7:19
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    19And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

  • Isa 17:13
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    13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • Isa 31:8
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    8Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.