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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joel 1:2-20

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 1:1-20

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 THE KINGDOM ESTABLISHED I. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS CHAPTER 1 1. The prophet’s appeal (Joel 1:1-4 ) 2. The call to the drunkards (Joel 1:5-7 ) 3. The call to the people and the priests (Joel 1:8-14 ) 4. The day of the Lord and the suffering land (Joel 1:15-18 ) 5. The prayer of the prophet... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 1:6

1:6 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 had punished them when he stirred up the Assyrians against them. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Joel 1:1-20

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 1:1-20

Prophet of Judgment Joel 1:0 Joel wrote his prophecy eight hundred years before Jesus Christ came into the world. It is a prophecy of judgment. If we liken ourselves to travellers through this Bible land we shall feel that we have come suddenly upon a volcano. "Joel" is a word which means, The Lord is God; "Pethuel" is a word which means, Persuaded of God. Names were characters in the olden time; now they are mere lines in a directory. Men were souls in Bible times; to-day they are "hands." We... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joel 1:6-12

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. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Joel 1:6

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 said to be three feet long, and their legs and thighs are used for saws when dried." (Pliny, [Natural History?] xi. 29.) --- They were attacked by regular troops in Syria. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xi. 29.) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:1-7

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 destruction of the country by a foreign enemy, and seems to refer to the devastations of the Chaldeans. God is Lord of hosts, has every creature at his command, and, when he pleases, can humble and mortify a proud, rebellious people, by the weakest and most contemptible creatures. It is just with God to... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joel 1:1-12

A Description of the Calamity v. 1. The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel, the superscription assuring us that we are not getting Joel's own ideas, but the inspired words of Jehovah. v. 2. Hear this, ye old men, whose memory reached back through generations of men, and give ear, in yielding a most willing and careful attention, all ye inhabitants of the land. It is a spirited challenge to all the people of Judah to mark the lesson of the great calamity which has... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joel 1:1-20

THE PROPHET JOEL_______PART FIRSTTHE JUDGMENT AND CALL TO REPENTANCEJoel 1:1 to Joel 2:17_______SECTION IComplaint of the Desolation of Judah by Locusts and DroughtJoel 1:01 The word of Jehovah which came to1 Joel, the son of Pethuel.2 Hear this, ye2 old men,And give ear3 all ye inhabitants of the land!Hath such4 a thing been in your days,Or even in the days of your fathers?3 Tell it5 to your children,And your children to their children,And their children to another generation.4 What the palmer... read more