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Verse Joel 1:2. _YE OLD MEN_] Instead of הזקנים _hazzekenim, old
men_, a few MSS. have הכהנים _haccohanim, ye priests_, but
improperly.
_HATH THIS BEEN IN YOUR DAYS_] He begins very abruptly; and be...
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HEAR THIS, YE OLD MEN - By reason of their age they had known and
heard much; they had heard from their fathers, and their father’s
fathers, much which they had not known themselves. Among the people...
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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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JOEL 1:2 TO JOEL 2:17. A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS, AND A
SUMMONS TO AN ASSEMBLY FOR CONFESSION AND INTERCESSION.
Joel 1:2. The Unprecedented Character of the Plague. No living Jew
has exp...
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HEAR. Note this indication of the formula of Joel's prophetic
utterances. See App-82.
YE. Hebrew has no proper vocative. The simple Noun with the Article
takes its place.
OLD MEN. Not official elder...
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Introduction, characterizing the event which forms the occasion of
Joel's prophecy: it is an unexampled one, of a kind which even the
oldest of the prophet's contemporaries had neither witnessed
thems...
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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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_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...
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HEAR THIS, YE OLD MEN— This prophesy begins with threatening the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Judah, with such desolation
of their country, by swarms of locusts, as had never happened to...
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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...
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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
HEAR THIS, YE OLD MEN, AND GIVE EAR, ALL YE INHABITANTS OF TH...
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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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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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HATH THIS BEEN IN YOUR DAYS. — The introduction points to the
startling nature of the portent: it was unexampled; it was a cause of
consternation to all who beheld it; it would be recollected as a
sub...
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שִׁמְעוּ ־זֹאת֙ הַ זְּקֵנִ֔ים וְ
הַֽאֲזִ֔ינוּ...
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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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Hear this, ye (a) old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
land. Hath (b) this been in your days, or even in the days of your
fathers?
(a) Signifying the princes, the priests, and the governo...
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_Men. Magistrates, and all who have children. (Haydock) He speaks to
Juda, as the kingdom of Israel was ruined, chap. iii. 2. His principal
object is to describe the ravages of locusts, and to exhort...
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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...
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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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_Hear this, ye old men; and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land:
has this been in your days, and in the days of your fathers? This
declare to your children and your children to their children, an...
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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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HEAR THIS, YE OLD MEN,.... What the prophet was about to relate,
concerning the consumption of the fruits of the earth, by various
sorts of creatures, and by a drought; and these are called upon to
de...
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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Ver. 2. _Hear this, ye old men_] Who, as ye are fittest to hear...
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_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...
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Hear this, ye old men, whose memory reached back through generations
of men, AND GIVE EAR, in yielding a most willing and careful
attention, ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND. It is a spirited challenge...
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A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
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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...
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HEAR THIS: he is about to report a very wonderful occurrence, and
desires all to consider it, mark it well, and tell me what you know.
YE OLD MEN; the oldest among you, who can remember things done in...
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Joel 1:2 Hear H8085 (H8798) elders H2205 ear H238 (H8685) inhabitants
H3427 (H8802) land H776 days...
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THE CALL TO HEAR WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY (JOEL 1:2).
The prophecy opens with a call to all in Judah to hear what God has to
say. The opening call has in mind Exodus 10:1 which, in the context of
a plague...
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1; Amos 5:1; Daniel 12:1; Deuteronomy 4:32;...
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Old men — The oldest among you, who can remember things done many
years ago....