Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Joel 2:11
Utter his voice — Summon them in and encourage them as a general doth his soldiers. His army — Of locusts and insects, and of Chaldeans signified by these.
Utter his voice — Summon them in and encourage them as a general doth his soldiers. His army — Of locusts and insects, and of Chaldeans signified by these.
Verse 11. _THE LORD SHALL UTTER HIS VOICE_] Such a _mighty force_ seems as if summoned by the Almighty, and the noise they make in coming announces their approach, while yet afar off....
AND THE LORD SHALL UTTER HIS VOICE - The prophet had described at length the coming of God’s judgments, as a mighty army. But lest amid the judgments, people should, (as they often do) forget the Judg...
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...
LET THE ALARM BE SOUNDED, FOR THE LOCUSTS ARE PRECURSORS OF THE DAY OF YAHWEH. Speaking in Yahweh's name the prophet bids the priests sound the alarm from Mt. Zion, that all the community may realise...
GREAT, &c. Compare Joel 2:31.Jeremiah 30:7; Amos 5:18; Zephaniah 1:15. WHO CAN ABIDE IT? Ref to Pentateuch ...
The signs of the approaching Day. _A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness_ So Zephaniah 1:15. Four synonyms are combined, for the purpose of emphasizing the darkness, whi...
_And_ JEHOVAH UTTERETH _his voice_ viz. in thunder, as Psalms 18:13; Psalms 46:6, and regularly: see on Amos 1:2. _before his army_ the locusts, as described in...
The locusts of Joel 2:2, as was remarked on Joel 2:1, are to a certain extent idealized, and pictured as more alarming and formidable than ordinary locusts; and in these two verses, other extraordinar...
_THE DAY OF THE LORD IS GREAT -- JOEL 2:1-11:_ The trumpet was blown to warn the nation of danger and invasion. The warning was sounded in order that the people could tremble and make matters right wi...
BEFORE HIS ARMY, &C.— _Before his army, that his camp may be very great, that it be strong to execute his command for the day,_ &c....
THE EXECUTORGOD USING NATURAL AGENTS TEXT: Joel 2:1-11 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants _of_ the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah c...
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?...
RV 'uttereth.' The voice of Jehovah is thunder (Psalms 29), hence the thought is that of a great storm accompanying the locusts....
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....
HIS ARMY. — “In every stage of their existence these locusts give a most impressive view of the power of God to punish a wicked world” (_The Land and the Book,_ p. 417)....
וַֽ יהוָ֗ה נָתַ֤ן קֹולֹו֙ לִ פְנֵ֣י חֵילֹ֔ו
THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they worked are des...
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...
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...
And the LORD shall (h) utter his voice before his army: for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abid...
_Voice; thunder, (Haydock) or the noise of locusts, ver. 5. (Calmet)_...
It will be very easy for a child of God to make a gracious improvement of what is here said, if read spiritually with an eye to soul exercises, in the conflicts of flesh and spirit, when once a life o...
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...
He at last adds, _And Jehovah will utter his voice before his army. _The Prophet seems in this verse to anticipate whatever objection men might adduce. “O! thou denounces on us great terrors, and as i...
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 THE LORD SHALL UTTER HIS VOICE BEFORE HIS ARMY,.... Either the army of the locusts, whom Pliny u calls "pestis deorum", "the plague of the gods"; and the Arabians frequently style them the army of...
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it...
_And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army_ God, who can make the meanest parts of the creation the instruments of his vengeance, is here sublimely introduced, like a leader or general, comma...
THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...
and the Lord shall utter His voice before His army, which the grasshoppers here represent; FOR HIS CAMP IS VERY GREAT, the host under His command exceedingly large; FOR HE IS STRONG THAT EXECUTETH HIS...
1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven aga...
THE LORD, Jehovah, the eternal and almighty God, Lord of hosts, SHALL UTTER HIS VOICE; summon them in, and encourage them, as a general doth encourage his soldiers engaging in fight; God commands thei...
Joel 2:11 LORD H3068 gives H5414 (H8804) voice H6963 before H6440 army H2428 camp H4264 very H3966 great...
THE MARCH OF THE YOUNG LOCUST/GRASSHOPPERSS (JOEL 2:4). Joel then describes the onward ‘march' of the young locusts in their mass movement made up of sheer numbers, advancing like a huge ‘army' coveri...
HIS ARMY To verse 10 (Joel 2:10) inclusive the invading army is described; at verse 11 (Joel 2:11) Jehovah's army. This "army" is described, (Revelation 19:11). The call to repentance is based upon t...
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...
_The day of the Lord is great and very terrible; who can abide it?_ THE JUDGMENTS WHICH SHALL ACCOMPANY THE DAY OF THE LORD I. Judgments productive of great sorrow. “A day of darkness and of gloomine...
JOEL 2:1 Army Invasion: The Arrival of the Day of the Lord. Joel describes the coming of an army, whose arrival may yet be prevented by a wholehearted return to the Lord. Verses Joel 2:1 describe the...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:11 UTTERS HIS VOICE. Thunder is associated with the events of v. Joel 2:10. HIS ARMY. The force that brings such dread and terror i
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter still urges repentance, directs for a meeting of the people, and assures that God will have compassion. JOEL 2:1. BLOW] Priests must sound an alarm, as if foreign invasi...
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...
2 Samuel 22:14; 2 Samuel 22:15; Amos 1:2; Amos 5:18; Amos 5:20;...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF JOEL Joel 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The Book of Joel anticipates the day of Jehovah. The 1st chapter has a definite historical setting, but it also looks forward in anticipatio...