Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Joel 2:23
The former rain moderately— The former rain in benignity: or, as Houbigant renders it, A teacher of righteousness. See Observations, p. 22.
The former rain moderately— The former rain in benignity: or, as Houbigant renders it, A teacher of righteousness. See Observations, p. 22.
Verse 23. _THE FORMER RAIN MODERATELY_] המורה לצדקה _hammoreh_ _litsedakah_, "the former rain in righteousness," that is, in _due_ _time_ and in _just proportion_. This rain fell after _autumn_, the o...
BE GLAD THEN AND REJOICE IN THE LORD YOUR GOD - All things had been restored for their sakes; they were to rejoice, not chiefly in these things, but in God; nor only in God, but in the Lord their God....
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....
BE GLAD, &c. Figure of speech _Apostrophe_ (App-6), to the people. CHILDREN. sons. MODERATELY. in due measure. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:4.Deuteronomy 11:14; Deuteronomy
_hath given_ another instance of the prophetic perfect. _the former rain … and the latter rain_ Heb. _môreh_, and _malḳôsh:_the rains which marked respectively the beginning and the close of the wet s...
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 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...
_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...
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. FEAR NOT, O LAND ... BE NOT AFRAID, YE BEASTS OF THE FIELD ... BE GLAD THEN, YE CHILDREN OF ZION. In an ascending gradatio...
2:23 measure, (b-23) Or 'richly.' Lit. 'in righteousness.' rain, (c-36) See Note f, Psalms 84:6 . season]. (d-46) Or 'in the first [month].'...
MODERATELY] RV 'in just measure.' THE FORMER.. AND THE LATTER RAIN] the rains at seedtime in early winter and before the harvest in early spring. IN THE FIRST _month_] RM 'at (= as at) the first,' i.e...
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....
YE CHILDREN OF ZION — _i.e.,_ they were called upon to manifest their rejoicings in the place where the trumpet had been sounded for the proclamation of the fast. THE FORMER RAIN MODERATELY. — St. Pau...
וּ בְנֵ֣י צִיֹּ֗ון גִּ֤ילוּ וְ שִׂמְחוּ֙ בַּ
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...
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain (p) moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the lat...
_Teacher; Joel, &c., or rather the Messias, John i. 9., and Matthew xxiii. 8. Some translate Hebrew, "rain." Septuagint, "meat," (Calmet) sufficient for the people. (Theodoret)_...
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 now exhorts the Jews also to rejoice, but in a way different from that of the land and of the beasts. _Rejoice, _he says, _in your God. _For the beasts and the sheep, while rejoicing, cannot raise...
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...
BE GLAD THEN, YE CHILDREN OF ZION,.... The people of the Jews, and especially the spiritual and believing part of them; such as were born again, that were born of Zion, and born in Zion, and brought u...
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter...
_He hath given you the former rain moderately_ The season of the former rain was about the middle of October. The Hebrew word לצדקה, rendered _moderately_, literally signifies, _according to righteous...
Be glad, then, ye children of Zion, the inhabitants of Judah, the children of the Lord, AND REJOICE IN THE LORD, YOUR GOD, the God of the covenant, the Lord of mercy; FOR HE HATH GIVEN YOU THE FORMER...
God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...
FORMER RAIN: Or, a teacher of righteousness MODERATELY: _ Heb._ according to righteousness...
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...
BE GLAD THEN, YE CHILDREN OF ZION: in the former verse the prophet, by a usual figure, and with known elegancy, called on land and beasts, though they understood him not; now he addresseth himself to...
Joel 2:23 glad H1523 (H8798) children H1121 Zion H6726 rejoice H8055 (H8798) LORD H3068 God H430 given...
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 4:7; Deuteronomy 11:14; Deuteronomy 28:12; Deuteronomy 32:2;...
The former rain — The autumn rain which is needful to mellow the earth and fit it to receive the corn. The latter rain — Needful to bring forward and ripen the fruits, accounted the latter rain becaus...