And ye shall eat in plenty, &c.— And ye shall certainly eat, and be satisfied, &c. Dr. Sharpe observes, that these words cannot, with any degree of sense, or propriety of language, be interpreted of any other joyful event, than the return of captive Israel and Judah from Babylon.
Verse 26. _PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, THAT HATH DEALT_ _WONDROUSLY WITH YOU_] In so destroying this formidable enemy; and so _miraculously_ restoring the land to _fertility_, after so great...
AND YE SHALL EAT IN PLENTY AND BE SATISFIED - It is of the punishment of God, when people eat and are not satisfied (see Hosea 4:10); it is man’s sin, that they are satisfied, and do not to praise 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...
YE SHALL EAT, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:5). App-92. EAT. eat on. PRAISE, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:24.Deuteronomy 12:7;...
_and praise_, &c. In acknowledgment of His bounty: cf. (of the Canaanites) Judges 9:27 (R.V. _marg_.). _shall never be ashamed_ or _disappointed_(on Joel 1:11), being worthy of, and accordingly receiv...
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 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...
DISCOURSE: 1181 REMOVAL OF JUDGMENTS A GROUND OF PRAISE Joel 2:26. _Ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my peo...
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 ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. AND MY PEOPLE SHALL NEVER BE ASHAM...
AND MY PEOPLE, etc.] probably by copyist error from next verse. 27. The rain and the harvests are evidences of Jehovah's presence. ISRAEL] the Jewish community so called after the exile. NONE ELSE] an...
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....
וַ אֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם אָכֹול֙ וְ שָׂבֹ֔ועַ וְ הִלַּל
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...
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...
_GOD’S PEOPLE UNASHAMED_ ‘And My people shall never he ashamed.’ Joel 2:26 There are three respects in which the promise of our text may be regarded as applying to those who answer to the descripti...
He now concludes what he has hitherto said of God’s blessing. As the Jews were starving while God was offended, so he promises that when reconciled to him they should have abundance of produce from th...
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 YE SHALL EAT IN PLENTY,.... Or, "in eating eat" n; most surely eat, and in great abundance; which Hebraism not only denotes the certainty of a thing, but the increase and abundance of it; see Gen...
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. Ver. 26. _And ye shall eat in plenty...
_And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten _ I will compensate you, or make you amends, for what the locusts have eaten in the foregoing years, by an extraordinary plenty of the f...
And ye shall eat in plenty, having an abundance of the best food, AND BE SATISFIED AND PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD, THAT HATH DEALT WONDROUSLY WITH YOU, making His wonders known through the...
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...
YE SHALL EAT; enjoy and live upon. _In plenty_; not with scarcity, as when water is measured to them, and bread is given by weight, EZEKIEL 4:16. BE SATISFIED; the broad they eat shall refresh them, m...
Joel 2:26 eat H398 (H8804) plenty H398 (H8800) satisfied H7646 (H8800) praise H1984 (H8765) name...
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...
Joel 2:26 There are three respects in which the promise of our text may be regarded as applying to those who answer to the description of the people of God. The believer has no cause to be ashamed: ...
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...
_And ye shall eat in plenty._ THE PROMISE OF PLENTY A MOTIVE TO GRATITUDE I. The branches of this promise. 1. “Ye shall eat in plenty.” To eat and to eat in plenty, are pleasures which threatenings...
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...
1 John 2:28; 1 Timothy 4:3; 1 Timothy 6:17; Deuteronomy 12:12;...
Wondrously — In one year giving as much as the locusts wasted in the years foregoing. Ashamed — Neither disappointed of your hopes, nor necessitated to seek relief among the heathen....