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GIRD YOURSELVES - that is, with haircloth, as is elsewhere expressed
Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 4:8; Jeremiah 6:26. The outward affliction is
an expression of the inward grief, and itself excites to furth...
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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...
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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...
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MINISTERS OF THE ALTAR. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 30:20).
App-92.
LIE ALL NIGHT, &c. The symbol of mourning; p. 2 Samuel 12:16.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4....
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Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17
Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of
Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may
yet be averted by the nation...
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The cessation of the daily sacrifices again occupies the prophet's
thought; and he turns to the priests, bidding them not mourn only
(Joel 1:9), but clothe themselves in sackcloth, and proclaim a day...
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_A CALL TO REPENTANCE -- JOEL 1:8-13:_ The nation of Judah would
suffer severe anguish. The farmers planted and tended his crops but it
was all in vain. The crops were destroyed by the locust and by t...
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THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d)
TEXT: Joel 1:13-20
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Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye
ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...
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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the
altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for
the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the...
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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...
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GIRD YOURSELVES] i.e. with sackcloth: cp. Isaiah 32:11. LIE ALL NIGHT]
cp. David (2 Samuel 12:16), Ahab (1 Kings 21:27). Nothing was more
terrible to the Jewish mind than the failure of the daily sacr...
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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...
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GIRD YOURSELVES, AND LAMENT. — The priests are exhorted to commence
preparations for a national humiliation, beginning with themselves;
for the visitation touches them in a vital part: they have no
sa...
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חִגְר֨וּ וְ סִפְד֜וּ הַ כֹּהֲנִ֗ים
הֵילִ֨ילוּ֙...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(h) Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the
altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for
the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from...
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_Go in to the temple, or sleep on sackcloth, Judith iv. 9. (Calmet)_...
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There is a vast degree of elegance in these expressions, as well as
earnestness; the priests the ministers of the Lord are first called
upon, and then all the people. The sackcloth to lie down in, the...
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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...
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Now the Prophet begins to exhort the people to repentance. Having
represented them as grievously afflicted by the hand of God, he now
adds that a remedy was at hand, provided they solicited the favor...
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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...
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GIRD YOURSELVES, AND LAMENT, YE PRIESTS,.... Prepare and be ready to
raise up lamentation and mourning; or gird yourselves with sackcloth,
and mourn in that, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi supply the words;...
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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the
altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for
the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the...
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_Gird yourselves_ Namely, with sackcloth; _and lament, ye priests_
Because the meat-offerings and drink-offerings were cut off: see Joel
1:9. _Lie all night in sackcloth_ Let those priests, whose turn...
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PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...
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Gird yourselves, namely, with garments of mourning, AND LAMENT, YE
PRIESTS; HOWL, YE MINISTERS OF THE ALTAR, whose chief duties were
concerned with the sacrifices brought on the two altars of the Temp...
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8-13 All who labour only for the meat that perishes, will, sooner or
later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in
the delights of sense, when deprived of them, or disturbed...
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GIRD YOURSELVES; bind your mourning sackcloth close to you with a
girdle, that it may be more troublesome to the flesh; for though in
Hebrew it is only gird, the phrase is well known in the Scripture,...
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Joel 1:13 Gird H2296 (H8798) lament H5594 (H8798) priests H3548 Wail
H3213 (H8685) minister H8334 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the
altar._
MINISTERIAL DUTY IN THE TIME OF DIRE NATIONAL CALAMITY
The prophet now directs his message to the priests of Judah, and
in...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
JOEL 1:13.] A summons to repentance. PRIESTS] first; they have been
negligent, and must set the example of penitence. SACKCLOTH] Outward
garments must indicate inward grief (Isaiah 32...
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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...
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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....
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1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 9:13; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Corinthians
11:23;...