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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joel 2:1-17

The Prophet Urges Repentance v. 1. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, this signal of the priests announcing the coming calamity, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain, from the Temple mountain, as the center of Jehovah's worship and the place of His presence in the midst of His people. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, shaken up out of their care-free condition; for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand, the visitation is no longer in the dim and distant future, but is an... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joel 2:1-17

SECTION IIThe Day of the Lord cometh! Repentance alone can avail to meet it. Hence the Demand for a Day of Public HumiliationJoel 2:1-171 Blow the trumpet1 in Zion,Sound2 an alarm on my holy mountain.3Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,Because the day of Jehovah cometh,4It is nigh at hand.2 A day of darkness and of gloom,5A day of clouds, and of thick mists,6Like the morning7 dawn spread upon the mountains;So shall come a people numerous and mighty,The like of which hath never been... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Joel 2:1-11

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 of God’s loving kindness ought to have kept His people faithful and loyal, but since grace and love had failed to affect them awful judgments were announced. A small insect, the locust, was to prostrate man’s boasted power. The four kinds of locusts here described and which doubtless... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joel 2:1-27

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 visitation as indicating a deeper and more terrible judgment threatening them. In doing this, he made use of the figure of the blowing of a trumpet. The first blast sounded a note of alarm as it announced the approach of the Day of Jehovah. With the figure of the locusts still in mind, the prophet... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Joel 2:1-11

A Bird's-Eye View of Joel Joel 2:1-11 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 anticipation of the coming day of wrath that shall be upon the earth prior to the time of Christ's Kingdom Reign. As we see the literal ravages of the locust, with famine and pestilence, as set forth in chapter 1, we behold but the forecasting of the ravages of the great army of the North, that shall fall... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:1-3

The Young Locusts Appear As A Judgment From God Despite All Efforts To Prevent Them (Joel 1:19 to Joel 2:3 ). It may well be that after describing the initial locust invasions in chapter 1 Joel now goes on to deal with the next stage of the invasions when the locust eggs hatch out and become voracious grubs and then small grasshoppers. Locusts tend to swarm when the weather is very hot, so that the opening words of this passage may refer to fires caused by a hot, dry summer. This would... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:1-11

Joel 2:1-1 Kings : . 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 that the dreaded Day of Yahweh is approaching. All the mountains, which dawn covers with light, are covered with blackness by the unprecedented hordes of locusts ( Exodus 10:1-Proverbs : *). The land they have traversed is left bare as though fire had scorched it, a dreary... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 2:1

Blow ye the trumpet: the prophet continueth his advice or exhortation to the priests, who were by office appointed to summon the solemn assemblies, and to call them together by sound of trumpet or cornet; and so would he have the priests to gather the people together to fast, and weep, and pray. In Zion; which taken largely is the same with Jerusalem, though strictly taken it is the hill on which the city of David, or his royal palace, did stand. Sound an alarm; give notice that all may be... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joel 2:1-11

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 invasion nigh. Joel 2:2. Darkness] Four terms used to indicate the intense calamity (Exodus 10:22; Isaiah 8:22). Swarms of locusts literally obscure the sun. People] numerous and most formidable. Like] Expressive of extraordinary judgments (cf. 2 Kings 18:5; 2 Kings 23:5). Joel 2:3. Fire] They consume.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joel 2:1-32

Chapter 2Now 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 this invading army, it is interesting to notice the description that he gives, because it is not much of a stretch of the imagination for us to see that he is describing modern warfare. The things that he described were things that were totally unknown and unheard of in his day, but yet they... read more