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Verse Joel 2:2. _A DAY OF DARKNESS, C._] The depredations of the
locusts are described from the _second_ to the _eleventh_ verse, and
their destruction in the _twentieth_. Dr. _Shaw_, who saw locusts...
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A DAY OF DARKNESS AND OF GLOOMINESS - o: “A day full of miseries;
wherefore he accumulates so many names of terrors. There was inner
darkness in the heart, and the darkness of tribulation without. The...
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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...
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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...
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A. DAY, &c. Compare Amos 5:18; Amos 5:20.
MORNING. blackness, or darkness. Hebrew. _shahar,. Homonym._ with two
meanings: (1) to be black or _dark_ (Job 30:30). Hence put for seeking
in the early morn...
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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 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...
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_THE DAY OF THE LORD IS GREAT -- JOEL 2:1-11:_ The trumpet was blown
to warn the nation of danger and invasion. The warning was sounded in
order that the people could tremble and make matters right wi...
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A DAY OF DARKNESS, &C.— We have in this and the following verses a
description of the locusts: their fierceness and speed, Joel 2:4.; the
noise and din of their approach, Joel 2:5.; the order and regu...
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THE EXECUTORGOD USING NATURAL AGENTS
TEXT: Joel 2:1-11
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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...
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A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and
a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be...
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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...
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DARKNESS, etc.] caused either by the clouds of locusts, or a figure of
calamity: cp. Amos 5:18; Zephaniah 1:5.
3. The devastation wrought by the locusts was as though the country
had been swept by a f...
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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....
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THE MORNING SPREAD UPON THE MOUNTAINS. — The Hebrew word here used
for morning is derived from a verb, _Shachar,_ which has for one
meaning “to be or become black,” for the second “to break
forth” as...
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יֹ֧ום חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וַ אֲפֵלָ֗ה יֹ֤ום
עָנָן֙ וַ
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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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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...
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A (b) day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a (c) great people
and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither sh...
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_Darkness. This implies great misery, ver. 10. (Calmet) --- People.
The Assyrians or Chaldeans. Others understand all this of the army of
locusts laying waste the land. (Challoner) --- Morning; unexpe...
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If we read these verses with an eye to the gospel of Christ, (and
surely in the present hour it were a folly to read them otherwise),
how graciously do they describe the first dawnings of a day of gra...
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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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And then he says, _A day of darkness and of thick darkness, a day of
clouds and of obscurity, as the dawn which expands over the mountains.
_By calling it a dark and gloomy day, he wished to show that...
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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...
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A DAY OF DARKNESS AND OF GLOOMINESS, A DAY OF CLOUDS AND OF THICK
DARKNESS,.... Alluding to the gloomy and thick darkness caused by the
locusts, which sometimes come in prodigious numbers, like thick...
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A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and
a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be a...
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_A day of darkness and of gloominess_ A day of great calamity and
trouble, which is often expressed in the Scripture by darkness. Or,
perhaps, the prophet's words are to be taken here in the literal
s...
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a day of darkness and of gloominess, as when the light of the sun is
shut out by immense swarms of locusts, A DAY OF CLOUDS AND OF THICK
DARKNESS, of heavy, dense, and obscuring cloudiness, AS THE MOR...
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THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...
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OF MANY GENERATIONS:
_ Heb._ of generation and generation...
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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...
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A DAY OF DARKNESS AND OF GLOOMINESS; metaphorically taken for a time
of exceeding great troubles and calamities, according to the style of
the Scriptures, which express prosperity by the metaphor of l...
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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...
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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...
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JOEL 2:1 Army Invasion: The Arrival of the Day of the Lord. Joel
describes the coming of an army, whose arrival may yet be prevented by
a wholehearted return to the Lord. Verses Joel 2:1 describe the...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter still urges repentance, directs for a
meeting of the people, and assures that God will have compassion.
JOEL 2:1. BLOW] Priests must sound an alarm, as if foreign invasi...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 4:13; Amos 5:18; Daniel 12:1; Deuteronomy 32:7; Exodus 10:14;...
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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...
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A day of darkness — A time of exceeding great troubles and
calamities. And this passage may well allude to the day of judgment,
and the calamities which precede that day. As the morning — As the
morni...