floors. threshing-floors.
wheat. corn.
fats. vats. Anglo-Saxon (northern) faet, (southern) vat = a vessel, or cask. Literally. that which contains. Hebrew yekeb the reservoir for receiving the wine; not gath, the press where the grapes are pressed. See note on Isaiah 5:2.
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...
JOEL 2:18 Joel 3:21. YAHWEH'S GRACIOUS RESPONSE TO THE PRAYER OF INTERCESSION. Joel 2:18. The Locusts shall be Destroyed and the Inhabitants of the Land Rejoice in Renewed Prosperity....
The prophet here speaks himself; and developing in jubilant tones the promise of Joel 2:19, first of all (Joel 2:21) bids in turn the land, the beasts of the field, and the children of Zion, exult on...
Part II. Chap. Joel 2:18 to Joel 3:21 Jehovah's answer to His people's prayer of penitence. He will remove from them the plague of locusts, and bestow upon them an abundance of both material and spir...
The reversal of Joel 1:10-12. _the floors_ i.e. the threshing-floors which, however, were not like our threshing-floors: see the description in the footnote on p. 227. _fats_ i.e. (as we should say)...
_THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE -- JOEL 2:18-27:_ The People of Judah would spend seventy years in Babylonian captivity. Even while they were there the Lord was deeply concerned about the land and He...
III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE IMMEDIATE BLESSINGS TEXT: Joel 2:18-27 18 Then was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his people. 19 And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behol...
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. AND THE FLOORS SHALL BE FULL OF WHEAT - the effect of the seasonable rains shall be abundance of all articles...
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...
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....
וּ מָלְא֥וּ הַ גֳּרָנֹ֖ות בָּ֑ר וְ הֵשִׁ֥יקוּ
PROSPERITY AND THE SPIRIT Joel 2:18 "THEN did Jehovah become jealous for His land, and took pity upon His people"-with these words Joel opens the second half of his book. Our Authorized Version rende...
1. THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY Joel 2:19 "And Jehovah answered and said to His people: Lo, I will send you corn and wine and oil, And your fill shall ye have of them; And I will not again make you a rep...
THE AVERTING OF JUDGMENT Joel 2:12-27 To rend the garment is easy, but a broken and contrite heart can be imparted only by the grace of the Holy Spirit. The love of God should bring us to repentance....
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...
_Presses, or subterraneous reservoirs._...
Here comes in what all along seems to have been intimated, how gracious the Lord would deal with his people. This is ever the case. When the Lord is coming forth to bless, he puts his people to pray....
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...
He goes on with the same subject in this verse, and shows the effects of rain; for when the earth is irrigated and satiated with sufficient moisture, it brings forth fruit, rich and plentiful. God the...
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...
AND THE FLOORS SHALL BE FULL OF WHEAT,.... The churches of Christ, which will now be in Judea, and in the Gentile world, which are his "floors", Matthew 3:12; and which will be set up everywhere throu...
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Ver. 24. _And the floors shall be full of wheat_] Such fatness shall God's footsteps drop, that your houses shall...
And the floors, the threshing-floors, SHALL BE FULL OF WHEAT, the result of a new, rich harvest, AND THE FATS SHALL OVERFLOW WITH WINE AND OIL, the receptacles of the vineyards being unable to hold th...
God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...
15-27 The priests and rulers are to appoint a solemn fast. The sinner's supplication is, Spare us, good Lord. God is ready to succour his people; and he waits to be gracious. They prayed that God wou...
THE FLOORS, where they thrashed their corn, shall be full of wheat, the best and most useful grain, the bread corn for man's life and support. THE FATS, the vessels into which the liquor ran out of th...
Joel 2:24 floors H1637 full H4390 (H8804) wheat H1250 vats H3342 overflow H7783 (H8689) wine H8492 oil...
HAVING ACCEPTED HIS PEOPLE'S REPENTANCE YHWH PROMISES TO DELIVER THEM FROM THE PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS BY CASTING THE LOCUSTS INTO THE SEAS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE LAND AND THAT HE WILL THEN RESTORE THE FRUIT...
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...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 2:21. FEAR NOT] as in ch. 1, on account of judgments, but rejoice in the destruction of the hosts. JOEL 2:22.] Verdant pastures and trees laden with fruit shall be given. Beast...
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...
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...
Amos 9:13; Joel 3:13; Joel 3:18; Leviticus 26:10; Malachi 3:10;...
The fats — The vessels into which the liquor ran out of the press....