In justification of the alarm just expressed, the prophet points again to the terrible condition to which the country has been reduced: anything which the locusts may have spared has been parched by the drought: the water brooks are dried up; cattle and human beings alike are perishing from thirst.
IS NOT THE MEAT CUT OFF BEFORE OUR EYES? - The prophet exhibits the immediate judgment, as if it were already fullilled in act. He sets it in detail before their eyes. “When the fruits of the earth we...
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...
A CALL FOR A FAST AND SOLEMN INTERCESSION. The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual...
IS NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. JOY AND GLADNESS. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 12:6; Deuteronomy 12:7; Deuteronomy 16:11;...
_THE DAY OF THE LORD -- JOEL 1:14-17:_ Joel encouraged the priest to call for a fast all across the land. It was time for the entire nation to repent. The Law of Moses did not require a regular fast....
THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d) TEXT: Joel 1:13-20 13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? IS NOT THE MEAT CUT OFF BEFORE OUR EYES, YEA, JOY AND GLADNESS FROM THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD? - (cf. , "The mea...
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...
MEAT] i.e. food. Many of the celebrations at the Temple were occasions of rejoicing over abundant harvests and the like (Deuteronomy 16:10; Deuteronomy 16:13; Deuteronomy 12:6;...
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...
הֲ לֹ֛וא נֶ֥גֶד עֵינֵ֖ינוּ אֹ֣כֶל נִכְרָ֑ת מִ
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...
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...
_God. None can bring the first-fruits. All appear in mourning._...
The preceding verses having described the ruin of all flesh by reason of sin, here comes the judgment. The Prophet unable to enter into the particulars of the dreadful day of account, only cries out u...
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 repeats the same thing as before, for he reproaches the Jews for being so slow to consider that the hand of God was against them. _Has not the meat, _he says, _been cut off before our eyes? joy and...
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...
IS NOT THE MEAT CUT OFF BEFORE OUR EYES?.... Such an interrogation most strongly affirms; it was a matter out of all question, they could not but see it with their eyes; it was a plain case, and not t...
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God? Ver. 16. _Is not the meat cut off before your eyes_] Heb. before your eyes: and so it appeareth to be the p...
_Alas for the day!_ Wo to us! The time in which God will inflict on us the punishments we have long deserved is now near; and if they be not averted by our repentance, they will fall upon us in an irr...
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? as their food supply was destroyed by the invading hordes of locusts, YEA, JOY AND GLADNESS FROM THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD? since the various sacrifices and meals o...
PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...
14-20 The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purp...
IS NOT THE MEAT? the question does most vehemently affirm, our food, what we should eat, i.e. all provision we should live upon. CUT OFF; devoured by locusts, or withered with drought, it is perished....
Joel 1:16 food H400 off H3772 (H8738) eyes H5869 Joy H8057 gladness H1524 house H1004 God H430 the meat -...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JOEL 1:6). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences in the d...
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...
_Is not the meat cut off before our eyes._ SIN A GREAT DEPRIVATION I. That sin deprives man of his cherished hope. “Is not the meat cut off before our eyes?” 1. This deprivation was unexpected. The...
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.] JOEL 1:16.] Food cut off, the joy of festivals and sacrifices banished. JOEL 1:17. SEED] decayed under the clods. GARNERS] Storehouses went to ruin and prospects of future harvest w...
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....
Amos 4:6; Amos 4:7; Deuteronomy 12:11; Deuteronomy 12:12; Deuterono
Cut off — Devoured by locusts, or withered with drought....