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Joel 2:3 Cross-References
Explore 13 cross-references for Joel 2:3 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Joel chapter 2 verse 3 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.”
Joel 2:3 (KJV)
Commentary on Joel 2:3
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth (Hebrew lephanav akhelah esh ve'acharav telahev lehavah, לְפָנָיו אָכְלָה אֵשׁ וְאַחֲרָיו תְּלַהֵט לֶהָבָה)—Joel describes the locust army using devastating fire imagery. The verb akhal (אָכַל, "devour") is the same word used for locusts eating crops (1:4), but here fire consumes. Lehavah (לֶהָבָה, "flame") appears in contexts of divine judgment (Isaiah 29:6, 30:27). This dual imagery—locusts and fire—suggests both literal description (locusts leaving scorched earth) and prophetic symbol (God's eschatological judgment consumes like ...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Joel 2:3
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“and has made her wilderness like Eden”
“I cry to you”
“in Eden”
“But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them”
“and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.”
“the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep”
“and saw all the plain of the Jordan”
“and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.”
“and the locusts came”
“the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left”