Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 2:5

5 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 battel aray .

Such Warlike Chariots on resounding Mountains, do with their rapid motions, and shaking their Irons about them, make a great and dreadful noise, so should these locusts in their flight. By which they shall terrifie the people before they come to them, for the noise of them may be heard say some at six miles distance.

Which does with continued crackling burn what is under the flame, and threaten speedy and inevitable ruin to what is before it, all shall be endangered by it, as if surrounded with flaming fire.

So ver. 2. let. l.

Prepared to assault and destroy, in pursuance of this Metaphor, see verse 7.8, 9, 10, 11.

Marginal references: Rev. 9.9.