The meat offering and the drink offering is (f) cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
(f) The signs of God's wrath appeared in his temple, in so much that God's service was discontinued.
Verse 9. _THE MEAT-OFFERING AND THE DRINK-OFFERING IS CUT OFF_] The crops and the vines being destroyed by the locusts, the total devastation in plants, trees, corn, c., is referred to and described w...
THE MEAT OFFERING AND THE DRINK OFFERING IS CUT OFF - The meat offering and drink offering were part of every sacrifice. If the materials for these, the grain and wine, ceased, through locusts or drou...
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...
The land is bidden to mourn as bitterly as a maiden mourning her betrothed, dead ere the marriage day. For most terrible consequence of the famine caused by the locusts no corn, wine, or oil can be ha...
THE DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE PLAGUE. Joel 1:5. The wine-bibbers no censure is implied; they are mentioned first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and the tears they are bidden...
MEAT OFFERING = the meal or gift offering. Hebrew. _minchah._ See App-43. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 2). App-92. Compare Joel 2:14. DRINK OFFERING. Ref to Pentateuch (Exodus 29:40;...
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...
Interruption of the public services of the Temple....
_The_ MEAL _offering and the drink offering is cut off_, &c. the means of providing them having been destroyed by the locusts. The cessation of the daily sacrifices would be regarded as a national mis...
All classes are to unite in lamenting this calamity, which has not only (1) deprived them of some of their most valued luxuries, Joel 1:5, but also (2) interrupted the public worship of God, Joel 1:8,...
_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 OF THE PLEA FOR REPENTANCE; VIVID, ARRESTING TEXT: Joel 1:4-12 4 That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eate...
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. THE MEAT OFFERING AND THE DRINK OFFERING IS CUT OFF FROM THE HOUSE OF 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...
THE MEAT OFFERING (RV 'meal offering') AND THE DRINK OFFERING] Two daily offerings which went with the morning and evening sacrifice of a lamb, the one consisting of fine flour mingled with oil and th...
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...
THE MEAT OFFERING AND THE DRINK OFFERING — _i.e.,_ all the outward and visible signs of communion with God are cut off. The means are lost through this visitation. There is a total cessation of “the c...
הָכְרַ֥ת מִנְחָ֛ה וָ נֶ֖סֶךְ מִ בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑
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...
_Lord. No harvest being reaped, the fruits could not be paid. Yet it is thought that what was requisite for sacrifice, would be procured from other countries. (Calmet) --- When Jerusalem was destroyed...
Under the figure of a swarm of insects destroying the fruits of the earth, is represented the judgment of the Lord upon a guilty land. It is blessed to observe, how the Lord pleads with his people by...
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...
Here, in other words, the Prophet paints the calamity; for, as it has been said, we see how great is the slowness of men to discern God’s judgments; and the Jews, we know, were not more attentive to t...
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...
THE MEAT OFFERING AND THE DRINK OFFERING IS CUT OFF FROM THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,.... The meat offering was made of fine flour, oil, and frankincense; and the drink offering was of wine; and, because of...
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. Ver. 9. _The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off_] _Periit libati...
_The meat-offering and the drink-offering_ These offerings always accompanied the daily sacrifice: see Numbers 28:4; Numbers 28:7. The word here and elsewhere translated _meat-offering_, properly sign...
The meat-offering and the drink-offering, the sacrifices in the worship of Jehovah, IS CUT OFF FROM THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, because it was impossible to procure the necessary materials, since everythin...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
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...
THE MEAT-OFFERING; which by Divine appointment was to be of fine flour, oil, and frankincense, as LEVITICUS 2:1, &c.; vi. 14, &c. This meat-offering was necessary to every sacrifice offered under the...
Joel 1:9 offering H4503 offering H5262 off H3772 (H8717) house H1004 LORD H3068 priests H3548 mourn H56 ...
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...
_Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth._ The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the Lord. THE WORSHIP OF GOD SADLY NEGLECTED THROUGH...
_Awake, ye drunkards, and weep._ THE INSENSIBILITY AND MISERY OF THE DRUNKARD The prophet now endeavours to awaken certain characters in the nation to an earnest sense of the woe that has overtaken...
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 1:9 OFFERING. Nothing is left for the offerings that accompany the daily burnt offering (see Leviticus 1:3). PRIESTS MOURN. Their
CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:8. A VIRGIN] The impersonated nation to lament with the sorrow and despair of a young girl, whose hopes have been blighted, and her beloved taken away by a stroke (Ezekiel 16:...
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....
2 Chronicles 13:10; Exodus 28:1; Hosea 9:4; Isaiah 61:6; Joel 1:13;...
The drink — offering — By the destruction of the vines, all wine (out of which they ought to offer the drink — offering) failed....