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Yoël 2:7
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Seperti pahlawan mereka berlari, seperti prajurit mereka naik tembok; dan mereka masing-masing berjalan terus dengan tidak membelok dari jalannya;
Seperti orang hulubalang mereka itu berlari-larian datang; seperti orang perang mereka itu menaiki dewala; masing-masingnya tampil ke hadapan pada jalannya dan tiada mereka itu menyimpang dari pada jalannya.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
They shall run: In their progress, says Dr. Shaw, "they kept their ranks like men of war; climbing over every tree or wall that was in their way. Nay, they entered into our very houses and bedchambers, like so many thieves. Every effort of the inhabitants to stop them was unavailing; the trenches they had dug were quickly filled up, and the fires they had kindled extinguished, by infinite swarms succeeding each other." 2 Samuel 1:23, 2 Samuel 2:18, 2 Samuel 2:19, Psalms 19:5, Isaiah 5:26-29
climb: Joel 2:9, 2 Samuel 5:8, Jeremiah 5:10
they shall march: Proverbs 30:27
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 12:36 - expert in war Isaiah 5:27 - shall be
Cross-References
The name of ye thirde ryuer is Hidekel, & it goeth toward the east side of Assiria: & the fourth ryuer is Euphrates.
And the Lord God toke the man, and put hym in the garden of Eden, that he myght worke it, and kepe it.
And the man gaue names to all cattell, and foule of the ayre, & euery beast of the fielde: but for man founde he not an helpe lyke vnto hym.
The Lord God caused a deepe sleepe to fall vpon Adam, and he slept, and he toke one of his ribbes, and closed vp the place with fleshe in steade therof.
Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.
So that all that had the breath of lyfe in his nostrilles throughout all that was on the drye lande, dyed.
And they fell vpon their faces, and sayde: O God, the God of spirites of all fleshe, hath not one man sinned? Wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?
Let the Lord God of the spirites of all fleshe set a man ouer ye congregation,
Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay, and whose foundation is but dust, which shall be consumed as it were with a moth?
Whyle my breath is in me, and the winde that God hath geuen me is in my nostrels,
Gill's Notes on the 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 fighting, who says, they strike not standing, but running:
they shall climb the wall like men of war; scale the walls of cities as besiegers do; walls and bulwarks cannot keep them out; all places are accessible to them, walled cities, towns, yea, even houses, Exodus 10:6;
and they shall march everyone on his ways; in his proper path, following one another, and keeping just distance:
and they shall not break their ranks; or "pervert their ways", as the word signifies in the Arabic language, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, observe; that is, decline not from their paths, as the Septuagint version; proceed in an orderly way, keep rank and file; so they are said to go forth in bands, Proverbs 30:27; and to encamp, Nahum 3:17. Jerom on the text relates what he saw with his own eyes:
"this we lately saw (says he) in this province (Palestine); for when swarms of locusts came, and filled the air between heaven and earth, they flew in such order, by the disposition and command of God, that they kept their place like chequered squares in a pavement fixed by the hands of artificers; so as not to decline a point, nor even I may say a nail's breadth;''
they keep as exact order as if military discipline was known and observed by them. Some render it, "they shall not ask their way" n; being unconcerned about it, moving on in a direct line securely.
n לא יעבטון ארחתם "non interrogabunt [isti ab illo] de semitis suis", some in Vatablus, and others in Kimchi and Abendana.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 not by the gates but over the walls” , as of a city taken by assault. People can mount a wall few at a time; the locusts scale much more steadily, more compactly, more determinately, and irresistibly. The picture unites the countless multitude, condensed march, and entire security of the locust with the might of warriors.
They shall march every one on his ways - There is something awful and majestic in the well-ordered flight of the winged locusts, or their march while yet unwinged. “This,” says Jerome, “we have seen lately in this province (Palestine). For when the hosts of locusts came, and filled the air between heaven and earth, they flew, by the disposal of God ordaining, in such order, as to hold each his place, like the minute pieces of mosaic, fixed in the pavement by the artist’s hands, so as not to incline to one another a hair’s breadth.” “You may see the locust,” says Theodoret, “like enemies, both mounting the walls, and marching on the roads, and not allowing itself to be dispersed by any violence, but making the assault by a sort of concert.” “It is said,” says Cyril, “that they go in rank, and fly as in array, and are not severed from each other, but attend one on the other, like sisters, nature infusing into them this mutual love.” : “They seemed to be impelled by one common instinct, and moved in one body, which had the appearance of being organized by a leader.” : “There is something frightful in the appearance of these locusts proceeding in divisions, some of which are a league in length and 200 paces in breadth.” : “They continued their journey, as if a signal had been actually given them to march.”
So, of the young brood it is related; : “In June, their young broods begin gradually to make their appearance; no sooner were any of them hatched than they immediately collected themselves together, each of them forming a compact body of several hundred yards square, which, marching afterward directly forward, climbed over trees, walls and houses, ate up every plant in their way, “and let nothing escape them.” : “They seemed to march in regular battalions, crawling over everything that lay in their passage, in one straight front.” So the judgments of God hold on their course, each going straight to that person for whom God in the awful wisdom of His justice ordains it. No one judgment or chastisement comes by chance. Each is directed and adapted, weighed and measured, by Infinite Wisdom, and reaches just that soul, for which God appointed it, and no other, and strikes upon it with just that force which God ordains it. As we look on, God’s judgments are like a heavy sleet of arrows; yet as each arrow, shot truly, found the mark at which it was aimed, so, and much more, does each lesser or greater judgment, sent by God, reach the heart for which He sends it and pierces it just as deeply as He wills.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 above.
They shall not break their ranks — See the account on Joel 2:2, from Dr. Shaw.
