Gird yourselves, and lament. — The priests are exhorted to commence preparations for a national humiliation, beginning with themselves; for the visitation touches them in a vital part: they have no sacrifices to offer to the Lord.
GIRD YOURSELVES - that is, with haircloth, as is elsewhere expressed Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 4:8; Jeremiah 6:26. The outward affliction is an expression of the inward grief, and itself excites to furth...
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...
A CALL FOR A FAST AND SOLEMN INTERCESSION. The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual...
MINISTERS OF THE ALTAR. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 30:20). App-92. LIE ALL NIGHT, &c. The symbol of mourning; p. 2 Samuel 12:16. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4....
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...
The cessation of the daily sacrifices again occupies the prophet's thought; and he turns to the priests, bidding them not mourn only (Joel 1:9), but clothe themselves in sackcloth, and proclaim a day...
_A CALL TO REPENTANCE -- JOEL 1:8-13:_ The nation of Judah would suffer severe anguish. The farmers planted and tended his crops but it was all in vain. The crops were destroyed by the locust and by t...
THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d) TEXT: Joel 1:13-20 13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the...
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...
GIRD YOURSELVES] i.e. with sackcloth: cp. Isaiah 32:11. LIE ALL NIGHT] cp. David (2 Samuel 12:16), Ahab (1 Kings 21:27). Nothing was more terrible to the Jewish mind than the failure of the daily sacr...
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...
חִגְר֨וּ וְ סִפְד֜וּ הַ כֹּהֲנִ֗ים הֵילִ֨ילוּ֙...
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...
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...
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...
(h) Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from...
_Go in to the temple, or sleep on sackcloth, Judith iv. 9. (Calmet)_...
There is a vast degree of elegance in these expressions, as well as earnestness; the priests the ministers of the Lord are first called upon, and then all the people. The sackcloth to lie down in, the...
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...
Now the Prophet begins to exhort the people to repentance. Having represented them as grievously afflicted by the hand of God, he now adds that a remedy was at hand, provided they solicited the favor...
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...
GIRD YOURSELVES, AND LAMENT, YE PRIESTS,.... Prepare and be ready to raise up lamentation and mourning; or gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in that, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi supply the words;...
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the...
_Gird yourselves_ Namely, with sackcloth; _and lament, ye priests_ Because the meat-offerings and drink-offerings were cut off: see Joel 1:9. _Lie all night in sackcloth_ Let those priests, whose turn...
PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...
Gird yourselves, namely, with garments of mourning, AND LAMENT, YE PRIESTS; HOWL, YE MINISTERS OF THE ALTAR, whose chief duties were concerned with the sacrifices brought on the two altars of the Temp...
8-13 All who labour only for the meat that perishes, will, sooner or later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in the delights of sense, when deprived of them, or disturbed...
GIRD YOURSELVES; bind your mourning sackcloth close to you with a girdle, that it may be more troublesome to the flesh; for though in Hebrew it is only gird, the phrase is well known in the Scripture,...
Joel 1:13 Gird H2296 (H8798) lament H5594 (H8798) priests H3548 Wail H3213 (H8685) minister H8334 ...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JOEL 1:6). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences in the d...
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...
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...
_Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar._ MINISTERIAL DUTY IN THE TIME OF DIRE NATIONAL CALAMITY The prophet now directs his message to the priests of Judah, and in...
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...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:13 The commands to PUT ON and LAMENT imitate the actions of the virgin (v. Joel 1:8). The priests lament because the...
CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:13.] A summons to repentance. PRIESTS] first; they have been negligent, and must set the example of penitence. SACKCLOTH] Outward garments must indicate inward grief (Isaiah 32...
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...
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....
1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 9:13; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Corinthians 11:23;...