Cross references
Joel 2:3
Before them a fire devours,
and behind them a flame scorches.
The land before them is like the Garden of Eden,
but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—
surely nothing will escape them.
Joel 2:3 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 51:3 (7 votes) and Genesis 2:8 (5 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 2 to Zechariah 7.
Which verses does Joel 2:3 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 51:37 votes
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
- Genesis 2:85 votes
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
- Joel 1:19–205 votes
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field. Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
- Zechariah 7:144 votes
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
- Psalm 50:33 votes
Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
- Amos 7:43 votes
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
- Genesis 13:102 votes
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Exodus 10:52 votes
They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.
- Exodus 10:152 votes
They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
- Psalm 105:34–352 votes
He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number. They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
- Jeremiah 5:172 votes
- Ezekiel 31:8–92 votes
- Joel 1:4–72 votes
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten. Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth. …
Which verses point to Joel 2:3?
The 10 strongest of 22.