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Joel 1:1
The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel, the superscription assuring us that we are not getting Joel's own ideas, but the inspired words of Jehovah.
The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel, the superscription assuring us that we are not getting Joel's own ideas, but the inspired words of Jehovah.
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JOEL _Chronological Notes relative to the commencement of Joel's_ _prophesying, upon the supposition that this event took place_ _about_ six hundred and ninety _years before...
THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL - Joel, like Hosea, mentions the name of his father only, and then is silent about his extraction, his tribe, his family. He leaves even the time when he lived,...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE RUIN, THE REPENTANCE AND THE RESTORATION III. THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD: ISRAEL'S ENEMIES JUDGED AND TH...
JOEL 1:1. A SHORT SUPERSCRIPTION....
TITLE. The word of the LORD. Therefore not Joel's. This is the Divine key to the book Joel's pen, but not Joel's words, Compare Acts 1:16 for. similar fact concerning David. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehova...
The Title 1. _The word of_ JEHOVAH _that came unto_ so Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1; Zephaniah 1:1. _came unto_ lit. _was_(ἐγένετο) _unto_, a very common expression in connexion with Jehovah's -word":...
_A TERRIBLE PLAGUE OF LOCUST -- JOEL 1:1-7:_ The message of this book was an inspired message. Observe the expression, "The word of the LORD that came to Joel." Joel describes a locust plague in that...
THE EXCLAIMER OF REPENTANCEGOD'S PROPHET TEXT: Joel 1:1-3 1 The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Hath this...
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL. He records nothing of himself except his divine commission. He desired to live as before God, and...
1:1 (g-0) * (The title of this book, 'Joel'), Said to mean, 'Jehovah is God.'...
THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS A HARBINGER OF THE DAY OF THE LORD After the title (Joel 1:1), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts (Joel 1:2), and summons...
JOEL] see Intro. PETHUEL] entirely unknown. 4. The PALMERWORM, CANKERWORM, CATERPILLER, and LOCUST, are not different insects, but in the original four different names of the locust, possibly represe...
THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT THIS BOOK Joel tells us his father’s name, but he says nothing about himself. Some students think that he wrote his book about 850 years before the birth...
JOEL. — Compounded of Jehovah — El, the composite title of the God of Revelation and of Nature, which is the subject of Psalms 19. It was a favourite name among the Jews, and was borne by an ancestor...
דְּבַר ־יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָ֔ה אֶל ־יֹואֵ֖ל ב
A SUMMONS TO PENITENCE Joel 1:1-20; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory...
Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible lo...
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. The Argument - The Prophet Joel first rebukes those of Judah, that being now punished with a great plague of famine, still remain obstinate....
_Planted. Septuagint, "Bathuel." He was born in the tribe of Gad, at Bethaven, the town which Herod styles Livias, Josue xiii. 27. (Calmet)_...
The prophecy opens in a very striking manner. It is the Lord's word, and therefore demands man's attention. And all ranks and orders are appealed unto to regard the man of God's commission; young men...
CONTENTS. The Prophecy begins with an account of a dreadful affliction to be accomplished on Judea. The Prophet exhorts the people to repentance, and appointeth a fast....
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 PROPHET JOEL_ ‘The word of the Lord that came to Joel.’ Joel 1:1 There is this value in the study of Joel—that he touches nearly the whole round of the Christian year, or which is the same thi...
_The word of Jehovah which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel_. He names here his father; it is hence probable that he was a man well known and of some celebrity. But who this Pethuel was, all now are i...
The Spirit of God takes the opportunity afforded by an unparalleled scarcity, caused by the invasion of innumerable armies of insects, to rouse the attention of the people with respect to the day of J...
THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. Who this Pethuel was is not known; Jarchi takes him to be the same with Samuel the prophet, who had a son of this name, 1 Samuel 8:2; and giv...
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Ver. 1. _The word of the Lord that came, &c._] See the note on Hosea 1:1, with whom Jerome and some other interpreters make this prophet a c...
_Hear this, ye old men_ Ye that have seen and remember many things. _Hath this been in your days_, &c. Give attention; and when you have heard and considered, say whether any thing like the calamities...
1-7 The most aged could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat the fruits of it. It is expressed so as to apply also to the destr...
JOEL CHAPTER 1 Joel declareth the destruction of the fruits of the earth by noxious insects, JOEL 1:1 , and by a long drought, JOEL 1:8 . He recommendeth a solemn fasting with prayer to deprecate thes...
Joel 1:1 word H1697 LORD H3068 Joel H3100 son H1121 Pethuel H6602 word - Jeremiah 1:2;...
‘The word of YHWH which came to Joel the son of Pethuel.' The whole prophecy is summed up in these words. It is to be seen as ‘the word of YHWH', that is, as God speaking directly to Judah. And He di...
CONTENTS: Joel's warnings of desolation upon Israel, and call to repentance. The plague of insects. CHARACTERS: God, Joel. CONCLUSION: Those who will not be aroused out of their security by the Word...
Joel 1:1. _Joel, the son of Pethuel._ Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presumed f...
_The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel._ JOEL Great as is the variety in the works of nature, it is no less so in the treasury of God’s Word. The “prophets” are quite unlike the r...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:1 The Judgment against Judah and the Day of the Lord. This first part of Joel introduces the Lord’s judgment in the form of a locust infestation, drought, and the coming of a great...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophecy opens with lamentation over the land, made desolate by successive swarms of locusts. Joel 1:2 contain the spirited introduction. OLD MEN] are called upon to note the unus...
EXPOSITION JOEL 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the same name, b...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Joel. Joel is a prophet of which we have no light of his background except what he gives to us. He is the son of Pethuel, but who Pethuel is, we don't know....
2 Peter 1:21; Acts 2:16; Ezekiel 1:3; Hosea 1:1; Jeremiah 1:2...
Came to Joel — Probably in the latter end of Jeroboam the second's reign over Israel and in the days of Uzziah, over Judah....