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Verse 4. _THAT WHICH THE PALMERWORM HATH LEFT_] Here he begins to open
his message, and the words he chooses show that he is going to
announce a devastation of the land by _locusts_, and a _famine_
co...
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THAT WHICH THE PALMERWORM HATH LEFT, HATH THE LOCUST EATEN - The
creatures here spoken of are different kinds of locusts, so named from
their number or voracity. We, who are free from this scourge of...
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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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THAT WHICH, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:38). Compare
Joel 2:25. The English of this verse is beautifully idiomatic, but
twelve Hebrew words condense the whole. See below.
PALMERWORM. T...
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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 calamity to which the prophet has thus emphatically directed his
hearers" attention: a visitation of locusts, repeated for more years
than one (Joel 2:25), and of unexampled severity; what had esc...
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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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THAT WHICH THE PALMER-WORM HATH LEFT, &C.— Bochart has given many
probable reasons to believe, that the four Hebrew words here used,
חסיל _chasil,_ ילק _ielek,_ ארבה _arbeh,_ גזם _gazam,_
signify four...
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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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That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that
which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which
the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
THAT WH...
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1:4 palmer-worm (a-4) cankerworm (a-20) Probably different species of
locust, or in different stages of growth, as 'grub,' 'creeper,'
'feeder.' See Note, Psalms 105:34 . caterpillar (b-31) Or 'devoure...
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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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THAT WHICH THE PALMERWORM HATH LEFT. — The picture is introduced
suddenly and graphically. “Behold the desolation!” “Note the
cause.” The earth is bared by locusts beyond all previous
experience. Ther...
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יֶ֤תֶר הַ גָּזָם֙ אָכַ֣ל הָֽ
אַרְבֶּ֔ה וְ
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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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Left, &c. Some understand this literally of the desolation of the land
by these insects: others understand it of the different invasions of
the Chaldeans, or other enemies. (Challoner) --- Jerusalem w...
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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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He adds what that judgment was, — that the hope of food had for many
years disappointed them. It often happened, we know, that locusts
devoured the standing corn; and then the chafers and the palmer w...
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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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THAT WHICH THE PALMER WORM HATH LEFT HATH THE LOCUST EATEN,.... These,
with the two following, are four kinds of, locusts as Jarchi observes;
though it is difficult to fix the particular species desig...
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That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that
which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which
the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Ver. 4. _...
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_That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten_ A
succession of noxious creatures hath perfectly destroyed the fruits of
the earth; which makes this judgment so strange and remarkable. It...
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A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
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That which the palmer-worm, literally, "the gnawer-off,". HATH LEFT
HATH THE LOCUST EATEN, the swarming or multiplying locust of the
Orient; AND THAT WHICH THE LOCUST HATH LEFT HATH THE CANKER-WORM, t...
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THAT WHICH THE PALMERWORM HATH LEFT:
_ Heb._ The residue of the palmerworm...
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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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Four sorts of insects pernicious to all sorts of trees, corn, and
herbs are here mentioned, which did succeed each other, and devoured
all that might be a future support to the Jews; whence ensued a
g...
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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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PALMERWORM
The palmerworm, locust, etc, are thought to be different forms, at
different stages of development, of one insect. The essential fact is
that, according to the usual method of the Spirit i...
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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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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...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:4 The LOCUST is a kind of grasshopper. Under the
right conditions they travel in large swarms and destroy all plant
life in their path (CUTTING... SWARMING... HOPPING... DESTROYING...
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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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1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28; 2 Chronicles 7:13; Amos 4:9; Amos 7:1
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Palmer — worm — Four sorts of insects, are here mentioned, which
succeeded each other, and devoured all that might be a support to the
Jews, whence ensued a grievous famine....