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 those striking visitations in the various periods of his Church; and with what gentleness in the midst of correction, the Lord manifests the cause for which he thus deals with them.
Verse 6. _A NATION IS COME UP UPON MY LAND_] That real _locusts_ are intended there can be little doubt; but it is thought that this may be a _double prophecy_, and that the destruction by the _Chald...
FOR A NATION IS COME UP UPON MY LAND - He calls this scourge of God a “nation,” giving them the title most used in Holy Scripture, of pagan nations. The like term, “people, folk,” is used of the “ants...
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 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...
A NATION. See Joel 2:20. and compare Daniel 11. Put for the great destroying powers which are symbolized in Joel 1:4 BY THE LOCUSTS. Compare Joel 2:2;...
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...
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,...
By what agency this devastation has been wrought: an army of depredators has invaded Judah, countless in numbers and well equipped for their work; and vine and fig-tree have been left by them bare. _...
_A TERRIBLE PLAGUE OF LOCUST -- JOEL 1:1-7:_ The message of this book was an inspired message. Observe the expression, "The word of the LORD that came to Joel." Joel describes a locust plague in that...
FOR A NATION IS COME UP— A word of consideration concerning the locusts may not be altogether improper, says Dr. Sharpe in his _Second Argument,_ &c. And as the commentators are divided in their opini...
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...
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. FOR A NATION - applied to the locusts, rather tha...
A NATION] figurative of the locusts: cp. similar figure for ants and conies in Proverbs 30:25. MY LAND] i.e. of Jehovah since the prophet gives His message. THE TEETH OF A LION] in destructiveness. TH...
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 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...
A NATION. — It was not uncommon with Hebrew writers to apply the name people or folk to animals, as, “The ants are a people not strong;” “The conies are but a feeble folk” (Proverbs 30:25); but the wo...
כִּֽי ־גֹוי֙ עָלָ֣ה עַל ־אַרְצִ֔י עָצ֖וּם וְ
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...
For (d) a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. (d) This was another plague with which God ha...
_Nations. Some understand the Assyrians or Chaldeans. But locusts are here styled a nation, Proverbs xxx. 25. --- Lion. Such locusts are described, Apocalypse ix. 8. (Calmet) --- "In India they are sa...
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...
Of what some think, that punishment, not yet inflicted, is denounced here on the people, I again repeat, I do not approve; but, on the contrary, the Prophet, according to my view, records another judg...
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...
FOR A NATION IS COME UP UPON MY LAND,.... A nation of locusts, so called from their great numbers, and coming from foreign parts; just as the ants are called a "people", and the conies a "folk", Prov...
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. Ver. 6. _For a nation is come up upon my land_] A...
_For a nation is come up upon my land_ Insects are described as a nation or people marching in order under their leaders, both by sacred and profane writers, because of their power to do mischief, and...
For a nation is come up upon My land, a great and mighty army of fierce warriors, STRONG AND WITHOUT NUMBER, in swarms of countless myriads, WHOSE TEETH ARE THE TEETH OF A LION, AND HE HATH THE CHEEK-...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
1-7 The most aged could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat the fruits of it. It is expressed so as to apply also to the destr...
This verse countenanceth their conjecture who take the locusts and vermin to be emblematical in part as well as literal; for it seems not very suitable to call their teeth _teeth of a lion_. FOR A NAT...
Joel 1:6 nation H1471 up H5927 (H8804) land H776 Strong H6099 number H4557 teeth H8127 teeth H8127 lion...
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...
_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 1:6 Locusts are compared to a NATION, powerful as a great army. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophecy opens with lamentation over the land, made desolate by successive swarms of locusts. Joel 1:2 contain the spirited introduction. OLD MEN] are called upon to note the unus...
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....
Hosea 9:3; Isaiah 32:13; Isaiah 8:8; Joel 2:2; Joel 2:25;...
A nation — An innumerable multitude of locusts and caterpillars, called a nation here, as Solomon calls the conies and the ant, Proverbs 30:25, and perhaps a prognostick of a very numerous and mighty...