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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Joel 2:1

II.(1) Blow ye the trumpet.—The preaching of the prophet increases in its intensity. Behind the locusts, exemplified by them, there is a still more terrible visitation. He sees on the horizon a mustering of the nations hostile to his people, bent on destroying them. Let the priests stir up the people for a fast, and for the defence of their land by the trumpet. The locusts have done their symbolical work, they have left their mark on the country. Now the day of Jehovah, the manifestation of His... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Joel 2:1-32

Conversion (Ash Wednesday) Joel 2:12 A great national calamity, either impending or just passed, was the occasion of the prophecy of Joel. It is traceable to national sin, and its remedy is national repentance. The words of our text bring before us a matter which is peculiarly fit for Ash Wednesday consideration the doctrine of Conversion; for conversion is the first step in that life of penitence to which Lent calls us. But conversion is a subject about which there is much misunderstanding. ... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joel 2:1-17

THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORDJoel 1:2-20; Joel 2:1-17JOEL, 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 described by him in full detail. Writing not only as a poet but as a seer, who reads in the locusts signs of the great Day of the Lord, Joel has necessarily put into his picture several features which carry the imagination beyond the limits of experience. And yet, if we ourselves had lived through... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Joel 2:1-32

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 ) 2. The invading army from the north (Joel 2:3-11 ) 3. The repentance of the people and cry for help (Joel 2:12-17 ) 4. “Then.” The great change (Joel 2:18 ) 5. Promises of restoration, and the early and latter rain (Joel 2:19-27 ) 6. The outpouring of the Spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28-31 ) 7. Deliverance in Mount Zion and Jerusalem (Joel... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 2:1

2:1 Blow ye {a} the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;(a) He shows the great judgments of God which are at hand, unless they repent. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Joel 2:1-32

JOEL GENERAL OVE RV IEW OF THE BOOK Joel was probably the earliest of the prophets whose writings have descended to us. His personal history is unknown further than the bare statement (1:1). His field of labor was presumably Judah rather than Israel, the southern rather than the northern kingdom, because of allusions to the center of public worship which was at Jerusalem (1:9, 13-14; 2:15), and because of non-allusions to Israel distinctively. Such places as 2:27, and 3:16 are thought to... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Joel 2:1-32

Night and Day In Zion Joel 2:0 The whole chapter is one of the most picturesque description to be found in all the record even of ancient prophecy. It is full of judgment, and it is full of gospel. The whole morning is darkened with locusts, yet at eventide there is light. Merely as an exercise in the pictorial art, were it nothing more, this chapter ought to stand amongst the masterpieces of literature. No man who had any regard to his own literary reputation could have written this could... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joel 2:1

CONTENTS The same subject is continued in this Chapter as in the former, the dreadful day of the Lord's judgments is solemnly described. But the close of the Chapter comes in with the sweetest promises of blessing in the outpouring of the Spirit. Joel 2:1 The Chapter opens with a solemn call to sound the trumpet in Zion. This was the office of the priests, to blow the trumpet, of what kind soever it was, whether the war trumpet, or the trumpet for the calling of assemblies, or the jubilee... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Joel 2:1

Blow. The prophets often ordered, to signify what will take place. (Worthington) --- The people were gathered by the sound of trumpets. The danger from the locusts was imminent; and all are exhorted to avert it, by praying in the temple, &c. --- Tremble at the sound, Amos iii. 6. (Calmet) --- Extemplo turbati. (Virgil, 'c6neid viii.) --- Lord. That is, the time when he will execute justice on sinners, (Challoner) and suffer affliction to fall upon them. (Worthington) (Chap. i. 15.) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:1-14

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 against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. The striking description which follows, shows what would attend the devastations of locusts, but may also describe the effects from the ravaging of the land by the Chaldeans. If the alarm of temporal judgments is given to offending nations, how much... read more