Joel 2:31 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

The promises of corn, and wine, and oil, in the Joel 2:12-27, would be very acceptable to a wasted country; but here we are taught that we must not rest in those things. God has reserved some better things for us, and these verses have reference to those better things, both the kingdom of grace and the kingdom of glory, with the happiness of true believers in both. We are here told, I. How the kingdom of grace shall be introduced by a plentiful effusion of the Spirit, (Joel 2:28, 29). We are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 2:31

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood ,.... Not by eclipses, as Aben Ezra; but by the clouds of smoke arising from the burning of towns and cities, which would be so great as to obscure the sun, and through which the moon would look like blood: or all, this may be understood in a figurative sense of the change that should be made in the ecclesiastic and civil state of the Jewish nation, signified by the "heavens" and "earth"; and particularly that their king or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:31

The sun shall be turned into darkness - The Jewish polity, civil and ecclesiastical, shall be entirely destroyed. Before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come - In the taking and sacking of Jerusalem, and burning of the temple, by the Romans, under Titus, the son of Vespasian. This was, perhaps, the greatest and most terrible day of God's vengeance ever shown to the world, or that ever will be shown, till the great day of the general judgment. For a full view of this subject, I... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:31

Verse 31 We now see why the Prophet adds here this sad catalogue, and how well these things harmonize together, — that God would testify his paternal love by the manifestation of Christ, — and that he would exhibit tokens of his wrath, which would fill the whole world with anxiety and fear. What he says of blood and darkness is, no doubt, to be taken metaphorically for a disordered state of things; for we know that calamities are often compared to obscurity and darkness. It is the same as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

These verses form a chapter (the third) by themselves in the Hebrew text, but in the LXX . and the Authorized Version they conclude Joel 2:1-32 . In them the prophet passes on to spiritual blessings. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

The dispensation of the gospel. The prophet had exhibited the wisdom and mercy of the Divine dispensations—God's pity for penitents, and the happiness of all who seek and serve him. "He will be jealous for them, and have compassion on them; he will plead their cause, avert his judgments, drive away their enemies, answer their prayers, and supply their wants; and the greatness of those things that have been done against them shall only enhance their gratitude for the still greater things... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

The gospel age. "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh," etc. Peter quotes this passage, but not with literal accuracy. Divine inspiration secures not uniformity of phraseology, but uniformity in facts and principles. We are authorized in regarding the passage as pointing to the gospel age; or, as Peter says, to the last days. The days of the Messiah are indeed the last days of the world. The passage teaches four things in relation to these last... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:31

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come . These wonders in the heavens follow the wonders on earth, and these obscurations of the heavenly bodies—the darkening of the sun and the dull blood-like appearance of the moon—were portents of coming judgment. These miraculous phenomena, if literally employed, may refer to those portentous sights which, as the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historian Tacitus testify,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 2:31

Before the great and terrible Day of the Lord come - o: “The days of our life are our days wherein we do what we please; that will be the “Day of the Lord,” when He, our Judge, shall require the account of all our doings. It will be “great,” because it is the horizon of time and eternity; the last day of time, the beginning of eternity. It will put an end to the world, guilt, deserts, good or evil. It will be “great,” because in it great things will be done. Christ with all His Angels will come... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joel 2:31

Joel 2:31. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, &c. Particular judgments upon kings and nations are often described in such terms as properly belong to the general judgment and conflagration of the heavens and the earth, as has been observed on Joe 2:10 th of this chapter. The expressions here used, in their literal sense, import the failing of light in the sun and moon, whether by eclipses or any other cause, such as perhaps, at the time here referred to, by... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 2:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:31

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:31

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 2:31

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joel 2:31

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