Joel 2:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

A day of darkness

As

Amos 4:13

A great

Joel 2:5

Joel 1:6

There

General references

Matthew 24:21

Bible References

A day of darkness

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

And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Clouds and darkness surround him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looketh to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in its heavens.

And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he shall turn it into the shades of death, and make it gross darkness.

Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

For ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and to darkness, and tempest,

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

As

For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth to man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

A great

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

There

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth to this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

For in those days shall be affliction, such as hath not been from the beginning of the creation which God created to this time, neither shall be.

General references

For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.