Joel 2:12-19 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:12

Turn ye even to me - Three means of turning are recommended: Fasting, weeping, mourning, i.e., continued sorrow. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:13

Rend your heart - Let it not be merely a rending of your garments, but let your hearts be truly contrite. Merely external worship and hypocritical pretensions will only increase the evil, and cause God to meet you with heavier judgments. For he is gracious - Good and benevolent in his own nature. Merciful - Pitying and forgiving, as the effect of goodness and benevolence. Slow to anger - He is not easily provoked to punish, because he is gracious and merciful. Of great... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:14

Who knoweth if he will return - He may yet interpose and turn aside the calamity threatened, and so far preserve the land from these ravagers, that there will be food for men and cattle, and a sufficiency of offerings for the temple service. Therefore: - read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:15

Blow the trumpet - Let no time be lost, let the alarm be sounded. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:16

Gather the children - Let all share in the humiliation, for all must feel the judgment, should it come. Let no state nor condition among the people be exempted. The elders, the young persons, the infants, the bridegroom, and the bride; let all leave their houses, and go to the temple of God. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:17

Let the priests - weep between the porch and the altar - The altar of burnt-offerings stood before the porch of the temple, 2 Chronicles 8:12 , and between them there was an open space of fifteen or twenty cubits. It was there that the priests prostrated themselves on such occasions. It was into this place that the priests brought the sacrifice or victim of atonement; and where the high priest laid his hands on the head of the victim confessing his sins. Let them say - The following... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:19

Yea, the Lord will answer - It is not a peradventure; it will surely be done; if ye seek God as commanded, ye will find him as promised. I will send you corn and wine - He will either prevent the total ravaging of the land, or so bless it with extraordinary vegetable strength, that ye shall have plentiful crops. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:12

Verse 12 The Prophet, having proclaimed the dreadful judgment which we have noticed, now shows that he did not intend to terrify the people without reason, but, on the contrary, to encourage them to repentance; which he could not do without offering to them the hope of pardon; for as we have said before, and as it may be collected from the whole of Scripture, men cannot be restored to the right ways except they entertain a hope of God’s mercy inasmuch as he who has been ungodly, when he... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:13

Verse 13 He then subjoins, Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Jehovah your God. The Prophet again repeats that we ought to deal sincerely with God; for all those ceremonies, by which men imagine that they discharge their duties, are mere mockeries, when they are not preceded by a pure and sincere heart. But as they were wont under mournful circumstances to rend their garments, he therefore says, “God has become now insensible to these customs; for with regard to men, ye are... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:14

Verse 14 The Prophet seems at first sight to leave men here perplexed and doubtful; and yet in the last verse, as we have seen, he had Offered a hope of favor, provided they sincerely repented. Hence the Prophet seems not to pursue the same subject, but rather to vary it: and we have already said, that all exhortations would be frigid, nay, useless, by which God stirs us up to repentance, except he were to testify that he is ready to be reconciled. Seeing then that the Prophet here leaves the... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:19

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:14

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