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Verse 5. _AWAKE, YE DRUNKARDS_] The general destruction of vegetation
by these devouring creatures has totally prevented both _harvest_ and
_vintage_; so that there shall not be _wine_ even for _neces...
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AWAKE, YE DRUNKARDS, AND WEEP - All sin stupefies the sinner. All
intoxicate the mind, bribe and pervert the judgment, dull the
conscience, blind the soul and make it insensible to its own ills. All
t...
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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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THE DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE PLAGUE.
Joel 1:5. The wine-bibbers no censure is implied; they are mentioned
first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and
the tears they are bidden...
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WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. L
NEW WINE. Hebrew. _asis_, App-27....
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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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All classes are to unite in lamenting this calamity, which has not
only (1) deprived them of some of their most valued luxuries, Joel
1:5, but also (2) interrupted the public worship of God, Joel 1:8,...
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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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AWAKE, YE DRUNKARDS— This character is given to Ephraim, Isaiah
28:1; Isaiah 28:3.; and excessive drinking is assigned as a reason of
the captivity of Israel, Amos 6:6. Kimchi's commentary on the plac...
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THE EXTENT OF THE PLEA FOR REPENTANCE; VIVID, ARRESTING
TEXT: Joel 1:4-12
4
That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that
which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eate...
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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,
because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
AWAKE, YE DRUNKARDS - out of your ordinary state of drunken stupor,
to...
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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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NEW WINE] RV 'sweet wine,' primarily the freshly pressed juice of the
grape or other fruit....
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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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AWAKE, YE DRUNKARDS — _i.e.,_ awake from such an insensibility as
wine causes. The people failed to see the hand of God in the terrible
calamity, like an acted parable, of the locusts. Insensate, as t...
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הָקִ֤יצוּ שִׁכֹּורִים֙ וּ בְכ֔וּ וְ
הֵילִ֖לוּ...
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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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Awake, ye (c) drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,
because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
(c) Meaning, that the reason for their excess and drunkenness was
tak...
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_Sweet. Hebrew, "wine, because of the sweet wine," (Haydock) or
liquors extracted from fruit. The things which you have abused, are
now taken away._...
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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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The Prophet adds this verse for the sake of amplifying; for when God
sees men either contemptuously laughing at or disregarding his
judgments, he derides them; and this mode the Prophet now adopts.
‘Y...
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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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AWAKE, YE DRUNKARDS, AND WEEP: AND HOWL, ALL YE DRINKERS OF WINE,....
Who are used to neither, either to awake or to howl, being very prone
to drowsiness upon their drinking bouts, and to mirth and jo...
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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,
because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Ver. 5. _Awake, ye drunkards_] Ye ale stakes, and suckers (Heb.
Shiccorim...
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_Awake, ye drunkards_ From the long sleep occasioned by your
intoxication. Kimchi comments thus on the place: “You, who accustom
yourselves to get drunk with wine, awake out of your sleep, and weep
ni...
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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,
because of the new wine, since the supply of grapes and therefore of
the liquor made from them was not available; FOR IT IS CUT OFF FR...
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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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AWAKE: great drinkers of intoxicating liquors are apt to sleep and be
secure, the prophet doth therefore here call to them, as to sleepers,
and by one apt word expresseth a double duty, vigilance of m...
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Joel 1:5 Awake H6974 (H8685) drunkards H7910 weep H1058 (H8798) wail
H3213 (H8685) drinkers H8354 ...
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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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_Awake, ye drunkards, and weep._
THE INSENSIBILITY AND MISERY OF THE DRUNKARD
The prophet now endeavours to awaken certain characters in the nation
to an earnest sense of the woe that has overtaken...
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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 6:3; Ezekiel 30:2; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 32:10; James 5:1;...
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Is cut off — Suddenly cut off even when you are ready to drink it,
and totally cut off by these devouring vermin....