Host. God could have hurled his thunderbolts, or mountains, to destroy all mankind; but he chooses to shew their insignificance, (Calmet) by employing the vilest insects, which they cannot withstand. (St. Jerome)
Verse 25. _I WILL RESTORE - THE YEARS_] It has already been remarked that the _locusts_ not only destroyed the produce of _that year_, but so completely ate up all _buds_, and _barked the trees_, that...
AND I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH EATEN - The order in which these destroyers are named not being the same as before, it is plain that the stress is not on the order, but on the...
II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE REPENTANCE AND RESTORATION OF ISRAEL CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The alarm sounded and the day at hand (Joel 2:1) _ 2. The invading army from the north (Joel 2:3) 3. The rep...
JOEL 2:18 Joel 3:21. YAHWEH'S GRACIOUS RESPONSE TO THE PRAYER OF INTERCESSION. Joel 2:18. The Locusts shall be Destroyed and the Inhabitants of the Land Rejoice in Renewed Prosperity....
RESTORE: make good. LOCUST, &c. See note on Joel 1:4. MY GREAT ARMY. Here the symbol, and what is symbolized, are joined together, and the army of men (verses: Joel 2:11; Joel 2:20) is implied by the...
Abundance in place of the deprivations of Joel 1:4. _And I_ The discourse of the prophet passing imperceptibly, as often, into that of Jehovah: cf. e.g. Isaiah 3:4; Isaiah 13:11;...
The prophet here speaks himself; and developing in jubilant tones the promise of Joel 2:19, first of all (Joel 2:21) bids in turn the land, the beasts of the field, and the children of Zion, exult on...
Part II. Chap. Joel 2:18 to Joel 3:21 Jehovah's answer to His people's prayer of penitence. He will remove from them the plague of locusts, and bestow upon them an abundance of both material and spir...
_THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE -- JOEL 2:18-27:_ The People of Judah would spend seventy years in Babylonian captivity. Even while they were there the Lord was deeply concerned about the land and He...
AND I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS, &C.— Concerning these _years,_ it said in chap. Joel 1:4 that _the locusts shall eat what the palmer-worm hath left,_ &c. Chandler renders it, _I will recompense t...
III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE IMMEDIATE BLESSINGS TEXT: Joel 2:18-27 18 Then was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his people. 19 And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behol...
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. AND I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS TH...
REPENTANCE FOLLOWED BY RESTORATION Joel 2:1 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come (Joel 2:1). The advance of the locusts into the city...
THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 2 THE ARMY OF *LOCUSTS V1 Blow the *trumpet in *Zion. Tell the people on the *Lord’s hill to watch for trouble....
I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS — _i.e.,_ the years which would have been necessary in the ordinary course of nature for the land to recover from the ravages of the “great army.”...
וְ שִׁלַּמְתִּ֤י לָכֶם֙ אֶת ־הַ שָּׁנִ֔ים אֲש
PROSPERITY AND THE SPIRIT Joel 2:18 "THEN did Jehovah become jealous for His land, and took pity upon His people"-with these words Joel opens the second half of his book. Our Authorized Version rende...
1. THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY Joel 2:19 "And Jehovah answered and said to His people: Lo, I will send you corn and wine and oil, And your fill shall ye have of them; And I will not again make you a rep...
THE AVERTING OF JUDGMENT Joel 2:12-27 To rend the garment is easy, but a broken and contrite heart can be imparted only by the grace of the Holy Spirit. The love of God should bring us to repentance....
Having thus dealt with the actual visitation and its terrible devastation, and having called the people into the place of humiliation, the prophet rose to a higher level, and interpreted the visitatio...
Here comes in what all along seems to have been intimated, how gracious the Lord would deal with his people. This is ever the case. When the Lord is coming forth to bless, he puts his people to pray....
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than Jonah), but differs ess...
_THE LOCUST-EATEN YEARS RESTORED_ ‘And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.’ Joel 2:25 I. THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS WAS A DAY OF THE LORD; A DAY OF DARKNESS AND GLOOMINESS; A...
The Prophet confirms what he had previously said, and states what is of an opposite character, — that God can as easily restore a rich fruitfulness to the land as he had before rendered it barren by s...
Joel 2:1 sounds the alarm, because the day is near. The day is then described as the invasion of a people, the like of whom had never been seen by Israel or the land. It was, in fact, the army of Jeho...
AND I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH EATEN,.... Or "I will recompense to you the years" m; give you fruitful ones, as a full compensation for those in which the locust ate up the f...
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. Ver. 25. _And I will restore to you the...
_And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten _ I will compensate you, or make you amends, for what the locusts have eaten in the foregoing years, by an extraordinary plenty of the f...
God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...
And I will restore to you, make up, THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH EATEN, THE CANKER-WORM AND THE CATERPILLAR AND THE PALMER-WORM, MY GREAT ARMY WHICH I SENT AMONG YOU, the insects of 1:4 being named...
15-27 The priests and rulers are to appoint a solemn fast. The sinner's supplication is, Spare us, good Lord. God is ready to succour his people; and he waits to be gracious. They prayed that God wou...
I WILL RESTORE; make up to you, or compensate: the lean years of Egypt did eat up the fat, but with you now the fat years shall feed and enrich the lean ones. THE YEARS: by this it appears that this d...
Joel 2:25 restore H7999 (H8765) years H8141 locust H697 eaten H398 (H8804) locust H3218 locust H2625 locust...
HAVING ACCEPTED HIS PEOPLE'S REPENTANCE YHWH PROMISES TO DELIVER THEM FROM THE PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS BY CASTING THE LOCUSTS INTO THE SEAS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE LAND AND THAT HE WILL THEN RESTORE THE FRUIT...
Joel 2:25 I. The coming of the locusts was a day of the Lord; a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, a day of bustle and heartrending calamity, of which fathers would...
CONTENTS: Day of vengeance upon Israel. Invading hosts and awful scourges. Repentance of the Jewish remnant and Jehovah's response and deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Joel. CONCLUSION: The...
Joel 2:1. _Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,_ to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2. Joel 2:2. _A day of darkness, nigrum esse._ The army of locusts obscured the light whil...
_I will restore to you the years which the locust hath eaten._ THE GREAT RESTORER Locusts are happily unknown in England. We have only the harmless grasshopper here. Where plagues of locusts are know...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:25 Being human often means bearing loss. Yet the same Lord who brings disaster when his people sin is also the Lord of mercy and abundant grace. He is fully able to give back what...
CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 2:21. FEAR NOT] as in ch. 1, on account of judgments, but rejoice in the destruction of the hosts. JOEL 2:22.] Verdant pastures and trees laden with fruit shall be given. Beast...
EXPOSITION JOEL 2:1 These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned by the locusts and the appearance presented by them; the calling of a congregational meeting for penitence a...
Now he uses this as the springboard and he begins to speak now of a yet future day of devastation that is coming from armies that are to invade the land. And in the second chapter, as he describes thi...
Joel 1:4; Joel 2:2; Zechariah 10:6...
Restore — Make up to you....