“But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”
Andrew Marvell
“Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”
“For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”
Bible
“And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.”
“And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.”
“And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.”
“People of the ancient might not yet familiar and had no references at all with aircraft technology and propulsion system as we have today. Therefore, if they saw something strange and flying in the sky, sometimes they called it as chariots of fire, or wheel upon the earth, or by some words which came out of their minds and mouths spontaneously.”
Toba Beta