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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joel 2:1-11

An army of locusts (2:1-11)Joel now pictures the approaching swarms of locusts as a person in Jerusalem sees them. He compares them to an enemy army and commands the watchman on the city wall to blow the trumpet to warn the city’s inhabitants of the attack. The swarms are so thick that they look like black clouds as they sweep down over the mountains (2:1-2). They spread over the countryside like an uncontrollable bushfire, turning healthy farmlands into barren wastes (3). People are terrified.... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joel 2:2

A. day , &c. Compare Amos 5:18 , Amos 5:20 . morning = blackness, or darkness. Hebrew. shahar, A Homonym. with two meanings: (1) to be black or dark (Job 30:30 ). Hence put for seeking in the early morning while yet dark (Psalms 78:34 ; Psalms 78:63 , Psalms 78:1 .Proverbs 1:28 . Isaiah 26:9 . Hosea 5:15 , &c.); (2) dawn or morning (Genesis 19:15 ; Genesis 32:24 , Genesis 32:26 . Joshua 6:15 .Hosea 6:3 ; Hosea 10:15 , &c.) a great people. Symbolized by the locusts in Joel 1:4... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joel 2:2

"A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as a dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any after them, even to the years of many generations.It would appear that far more than any locust plague is in view here. "The locusts are now pictured on a scale larger than life, and many commentators have understood them here as prefiguring some invading army from the north."[8] We do not hesitate to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joel 2:2

Joel 2:2. A day of darkness, &c.— We have in this and the following verses a description of the locusts: their fierceness and speed, Joel 2:4.; the noise and din of their approach, Joel 2:5.; the order and regularity of their march, Joel 2:7-8.; their darkening the very lights of heaven by their number and flight, Joel 2:10.; the havoc that they should occasion, Joel 2:3.; the places that they should invade, Joel 2:7; Joel 2:9.; and the consternation and distress which they should bring... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joel 2:2

2. darkness . . . gloominess . . . clouds . . . thick darkness—accumulation of synonyms, to intensify the picture of calamity ( :-). Appropriate here, as the swarms of locusts intercepting the sunlight suggested darkness as a fit image of the coming visitation. as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people—Substitute a comma for a colon after mountains: As the morning light spreads itself over the mountains, so a people numerous [MAURER] and strong shall spread themselves. The... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joel 2:1-2

1. The nearness of the army 2:1-2The prophet ordered a trumpet (Heb. shophar, ram’s horn) to be blown in Zion (Jerusalem), specifically on the temple mount, to sound an alarm (cf. Jeremiah 4:5-6; Ezekiel 33:2-6). Sometimes "Zion" refers to Jerusalem in the eschaton, but other times it is simply a poetic synonym for Jerusalem. Joel used it in the latter sense here. This shophar was the ancient equivalent of an air raid siren. The day of the Lord was coming, and all the inhabitants of the city... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joel 2:1-11

A. The invading army 2:1-11The Lord revealed that an army of human beings rather than locusts would soon assail Jerusalem. He described this army at length to stress the danger that His people faced and to motivate them to repent. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joel 2:1-27

III. A NEAR FUTURE DAY OF THE LORD: A HUMAN INVASION 2:1-27Joel had spoken briefly of a coming day of the Lord in Joel 1:15, but now he said more about it.The term "the day of the Lord" seems to have arisen from the popular concept, in the ancient Near East, that a really great warrior king could consummate an entire military campaign in one single day. [Note: See Douglas Stuart, "The Sovereign’s Day of Conquest," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 220/21 (December 1975,... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:1-32

Repentance followed by RestorationJoel 2:1-17 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come (Joel 2:1-3). The advance of the locusts into the city is described under the figure of an invading army (Joel 2:4-11). A message to the penitent is given from Jehovah (Joel 2:12-14), and a call is issued for a fast of supplication (Joel 2:15-17). Then follow the announcements that Jehovah has had pity on His people, and that He will remove the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Joel 2:2

(2) The morning spread upon the mountains.—The Hebrew word here used for morning is derived from a verb, Shachar, which has for one meaning “to be or become black,” for the second “to break forth” as light. From this latter signification is derived the word for morning—dawn; from the former comes the word “blackness,” which gives the name Sihor to the Nile (Isaiah 23:3). It seems accordingly more in harmony with the present context to take the sense of the word in its reference to blackness,... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joel 2:1-11

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joel 2:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joel 2:2

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joel 2:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joel 2:2

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joel 2:1-2

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joel 2:1-11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joel 2:1-27

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:1-32

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Joel 2:2

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