Joel 2:6
What meaning of the joel 2:6 in the Bible?
What does Joel 2:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.c"
What does Joel 2:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.c"
Verse 6. _ALL FACES SHALL GATHER BLACKNESS._] Universal mourning shall take place, because they know that such a plague is irresistible....
BEFORE THEIR FACE THE PEOPLE SHALL BE MUCH PAINED - The locust being such a scourge of God, good reason have men to be terrified at their approach; and those are most terrified who have most felt the...
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...
LET THE ALARM BE SOUNDED, FOR THE LOCUSTS ARE PRECURSORS OF THE DAY OF YAHWEH. Speaking in Yahweh's name the prophet bids the priests sound the alarm from Mt. Zion, that all the community may realise...
PEOPLE. people's. BLACKNESS. paleness....
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 DAY OF THE LORD IS GREAT -- JOEL 2:1-11:_ The trumpet was blown to warn the nation of danger and invasion. The warning was sounded in order that the people could tremble and make matters right wi...
BEFORE THEIR FACE, &C.— _At their approach the people tremble: all faces contract paleness._...
THE EXECUTORGOD USING NATURAL AGENTS TEXT: Joel 2:1-11 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants _of_ the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah c...
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. BEFORE THEIR FACE THE PEOPLE SHALL BE MUCH PAINED - namely, with terror. The Arab proverb is, 'More terrible th...
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. All the people who live in this count...
ALL FACES SHALL GATHER BLACKNESS. — There are different explanations of this Hebrew phrase, which expresses the result of terror. Some translate it “withdraw their ruddiness,” _i.e.,_ grow pale; other...
מִ פָּנָ֖יו יָחִ֣ילוּ עַמִּ֑ים כָּל ־פָּנִ֖ים קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר׃...
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 de...
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 memor...
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...
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces (e) shall gather blackness. (e) They will be pale and black because of fear, as in (Nahum 2:10)....
_Kettle. The Jews were naturally of a dark complexion. Fear causing the blood to retire, would make them black, Isaias xiii. 8., Lamentations iv. 8., and v. 10. (Calmet)_...
It will be very easy for a child of God to make a gracious improvement of what is here said, if read spiritually with an eye to soul exercises, in the conflicts of flesh and spirit, when once a life o...
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 es...
At length he adds, _As a strong people, prepared for battle; their face the people will dread, and all faces shall gather blackness. _By these words the Prophet intimates that the Assyrians at their c...
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...
BEFORE THEIR FACE THE PEOPLE SHALL BE MUCH PAINED,.... Or, "at their presence"; at the sight of them they shall be in pain, as a woman in travail; into such distress an army of locusts would throw the...
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. Ver. 6. _Before their face the people shall be much pained_] This is a confirmation of the former assertion. The p...
_The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses _ Bochart and many other writers mention the resemblance which the head of a locust bears to that of a horse; whence the Italians call them _cava...
THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...
BLACKNESS: _ Heb._ pot...
1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven aga...
BEFORE THEIR FACE, at the sight of these locusts, both literally and figuratively considered, THE PEOPLE of the land shall be much pained; as a woman in travail is in pain, their fears shall be very g...
Joel 2:6 Before H6440 people H5971 pain H2342 (H8799) faces H6440 drained H6908 (H8765) color H6289 all - Psalms 119:83; Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 8:21, Jeremiah 30:6; Lamentation
THE MARCH OF THE YOUNG LOCUST/GRASSHOPPERSS (JOEL 2:4). Joel then describes the onward ‘march' of the young locusts in their mass movement made up of sheer numbers, advancing like a huge ‘army' coveri...
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: Th...
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 whi...
JOEL 2:1 Army Invasion: The Arrival of the Day of the Lord. Joel describes the coming of an army, whose arrival may yet be prevented by a wholehearted return to the Lord. Verses Joel 2:1 describe the...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter still urges repentance, directs for a meeting of the people, and assures that God will have compassion. JOEL 2:1. BLOW] Priests must sound an alarm, as if foreign invasi...
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...
Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 8:21; Lamentations 4:8; Nahum 2:10; Psalms 119:83...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF JOEL Joel 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The Book of Joel anticipates the day of Jehovah. The 1st chapter has a definite historical setting, but it also looks forward in anticipatio...
Blackness — Such as is the colour of dead men, or the dark paleness of men frightened into swoons....