Joel 2:23-25 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 2:18-27

See how ready God is to succour and relieve his people, how he waits to be gracious; as soon as ever they humble themselves under this hand, and pray, and seek his face, he immediately meets them with his favours. They prayed that God would spare them, and see here with what good words and comfortable words he answered them; for God's promises are real answers to the prayers of faith, because with him saying and doing are not two things. Now observe, I. Whence this mercy promised shall take... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 2:23

Be glad then, ye children of Zion ,.... The people of the Jews, and especially the spiritual and believing part of them; such as were born again, that were born of Zion, and born in Zion, and brought up by her, and in her; the children of that Zion or Jerusalem that is the mother of us all; and who were looking for the Messiah, and to whom it would be good news and glad tidings to hear of his coming, Zechariah 9:9 ; and rejoice in the Lord your God ; not in any creature or creature... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 2:24

And the floors shall be full of wheat ,.... The churches of Christ, which will now be in Judea, and in the Gentile world, which are his "floors", Matthew 3:12 ; and which will be set up everywhere through the preaching of the Gospel, the descent of the former and latter rain; these will be full of precious souls gathered in, compared to wheat, and of the choice and excellent, doctrines of the Gospel, and of all spiritual provisions, Matthew 13:30 ; and the fats shall overflow with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 2:25

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten ,.... Or "I will recompense to you the years" F13 ושלמתי לכם "et rependam vobis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Vatablus, Tarnovius; "compensabo", Grotius, Cocceius. ; give you fruitful ones, as a full compensation for those in which the locust ate up the fruits of the earth for some years running: the canker worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer worm ; of which see Joel 1:4 ; my great army which I... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:23

The former rain moderately - לצדקה המורה hammoreh litsedakah , "the former rain in righteousness," that is, in due time and in just proportion. This rain fell after autumn, the other in spring. See Hosea 6:3 . In the first month - בראשון barishon , "as aforetime." So Bp. Newcome. In the month Nisan. - Syriac. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:25

I will restore - the years - It has already been remarked that the locusts not only destroyed the produce of that year, but so completely ate up all buds, and barked the trees, that they did not recover for some years. Here God promises that he would either prevent or remedy that evil; for he would restore the years that the locusts, cankerworm, caterpillar, and palmerworm had eaten. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:23

Verse 23 He now exhorts the Jews also to rejoice, but in a way different from that of the land and of the beasts. Rejoice, he says, in your God. For the beasts and the sheep, while rejoicing, cannot raise their thoughts higher than to their food: hence, the joy of brute animals, as they say, terminates in its object. But the Prophet sets forth God before the Jews as the ground of their joy. We then see how he distinguishes them from brute animals from the land and other elements; for he not... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:24

Verse 24 He goes on with the same subject in this verse, and shows the effects of rain; for when the earth is irrigated and satiated with sufficient moisture, it brings forth fruit, rich and plentiful. God then will cause that the rains shall not be useless, for the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine as well as oil. He afterwards adds — read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:25

Verse 25 The Prophet confirms what he had previously said, and states what is of an opposite character, — that God can as easily restore a rich fruitfulness to the land as he had before rendered it barren by sending devouring insects. I will give you years, (for the other years,) he says; and that the Jews might more fully understand that all this was in God’s hand, he expressly declares that the cankerworms, the chafers, and the locusts (11), were his army and as it were his hired army, whom... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:18-24

Interaction of the Divine and human. "Then will the Lord be jealous," etc. These verses refer to the removal both of the actual calamity under which the nation were suffering, namely, the plague of locusts, and also to the removal of that calamity which was to come upon them by the invasion of a foreign foe, namely, the Assyrians. The latter is evidently referred to in Joel 2:20 : "I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 2:18-27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 2:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 2:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 2:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 2:18-24

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