A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
⛓ Read Joel 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Joel's day of the LORD is 'a day of darkness... such as has never been from of old, nor will be again after,' an unequaled-day formula parallel to Daniel 12:1 and reused by Mark. Joel supplies both the superlative-distress idiom and (in 2:10, 31) the sun-moon darkening cluster Mark deploys at 13:24, strengthening coherence.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Joel's Day of the LORD is 'a day of darkness... such as has never been, nor will be again after them through the years,' the same unequaled-distress superlative attached to the eschatological day.
Low confidence