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Joel 2:11

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 is under God’s command. He who executes probably refers to the army, which carries out the Lord’s command.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GREAT, &c. Compare Joel 2:31.Jeremiah 30:7; Amos 5:18; Zephaniah 1:15. WHO CAN ABIDE IT? Ref to Pentateuch ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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?...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'uttereth.' The voice of Jehovah is thunder (Psalms 29), hence the thought is that of a great storm accompanying the locusts....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ יהוָ֗ה נָתַ֤ן קֹולֹו֙ לִ פְנֵ֣י חֵילֹ֔ו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Voice; thunder, (Haydock) or the noise of locusts, ver. 5. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 2:11 LORD H3068 gives H5414 (H8804) voice H6963 before H6440 army H2428 camp H4264 very H3966 great...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 22:14; 2 Samuel 22:15; Amos 1:2; Amos 5:18; Amos 5:20;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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