Joel 2:9

Joel 2:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They run to and fro in the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter at the windows like a thief.

Context of Joel 2:9

7They run together like an army into a fight. They climb walls like soldiers. They march on in a straight line. They do not turn away. 8They do not push each other away. Each one of them goes straight on. You can put weapons in their path but they go straight on. They run towards the city. They run along the wall. They climb into houses. They go through the windows like robbers. 10The earth in front of them moves. The sky itself moves. The sun and moon are dark and the stars do not give any light. 11The Lord shouts aloud as he leads his army. We cannot count his soldiers. Those who obey him are very strong. The day of the Lord is powerful. It makes us afraid. Not many of us will be alive after it has gone.

Joel 2:9 word by word

בָּעִ֣יר יָשֹׁ֗קּוּ בַּֽחוֹמָה֙ יְרֻצ֔וּן בַּבָּתִּ֖ים יַעֲל֑וּ בְּעַ֧ד הַחַלּוֹנִ֛ים יָבֹ֖אוּ כַּגַּנָּֽב׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They shall run to and froשָׁקַקshâqaq · to rushH8264
• in the cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• they shall runרוּץrûts · to run: runH7323
• upon the wallחוֹמָהchômâh · wallH2346
• they shall climb upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• upon the housesבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• they shall enter inבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• at the windowsחַלּוֹןchallôn · windowH2474
• like a thiefגַּנָּבgannâb · thiefH1590

Cross-references for Joel 2:9

• Exodus 10:6They will fill your houses, and your officers' houses. They will fill all the houses in Egypt! It will be worse than anything that your fathers or your grandfathers have ever seen. Nothing like this has ever happened in Egypt before now.” ’ Then Moses turned away and left Pharaoh.
• Jeremiah 9:21“Death has come to visit us! It has come into our strong houses. Death has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who meet together in the streets.”
• John 10:1Jesus then said, ‘I tell you this: A shepherd keeps his sheep in a safe place with a wall round it. There is a gate into that safe place. Anyone who gets into that place by another way, not through the gate, is not the shepherd. That person is a robber. He comes to take away the sheep for himself.

Commentaries on Joel 2:9

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9They shall run to and fro in the city - “The city” is questionless Jerusalem. So to the Romans, “the city” meant Rome; to the Athenians, Athens; among ourselves, “town” or “the city” are idiomatic names for the whole of London or “the city of London.” In Wales “town” is, with the country people, the neighboring town with which alone they are familiar. There is no ambiguity in the living language. In Guernsey, one who should call Port Pierre by any other…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-9The locusts invaded both cities and farms, moving like a well-trained army. They scaled city walls and swarmed over the city. They found every way to enter, even climbing through windows like thieves.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-97-9. Depicting the regular military order of their advance, "One locust not turning a nail's breadth out of his own place in the march" [Jerome]. Compare Pr 30:27, "The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands."Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 2:9

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Joel
• War

In the dictionaries

• Darkness
• Fat
• Locust
• Pour
• Rend
• Reproach
• Thrust
• Eschatology of the Old Testament
• Joel (2)
• Fasts

Commentaries on Joel 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings