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Verse Joel 1:3. _TELL YE YOUR CHILDREN OF IT_] To heighten the effect,
he still conceals the subject, and informs them that it is such as
should be handed down from father to son through all generatio...
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TELL YE YOUR CHILDREN OF IT - In the order of God’s goodness,
generation was to declare to generation the wonders of His love. “He
established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, whic...
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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
TH...
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JOEL 1:2 TO JOEL 2:17. A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS, AND A
SUMMONS TO AN ASSEMBLY FOR CONFESSION AND INTERCESSION.
Joel 1:2. The Unprecedented Character of the Plague. No living Jew
has exp...
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TELL YE YOUR CHILDREN. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy
6:6; Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 11:19). App-92. Compare
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Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17
Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of
Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may
yet be averted by the nation...
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RECOUNT CONCERNING _it to your children_ RECOUNT, a stronger word
than _tell_, and implying some narrative of particulars.
_to your children_, &c. comp. (also with _recount_) Exodus 10:2;
Psalms 22:3...
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Introduction, characterizing the event which forms the occasion of
Joel's prophecy: it is an unexampled one, of a kind which even the
oldest of the prophet's contemporaries had neither witnessed
thems...
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_A TERRIBLE PLAGUE OF LOCUST -- JOEL 1:1-7:_ The message of this book
was an inspired message. Observe the expression, "The word of the LORD
that came to Joel." Joel describes a locust plague in that...
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THE EXCLAIMER OF REPENTANCEGOD'S PROPHET
TEXT: Joel 1:1-3
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The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Hath
this...
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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
HEAR THIS, YE OLD MEN, AND GIVE EAR, ALL YE INHABITANTS OF TH...
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THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS A HARBINGER OF THE DAY OF THE LORD
After the title (Joel 1:1), the prophet announces an unheard of and
long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts (Joel 1:2), and summons...
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THE DAY OF THE LORD
JOEL
_ROY ROHU_
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Joel tells us his father’s name, but he says nothing about himself.
Some students think that he wrote his book about 850 years before the
birth...
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HATH THIS BEEN IN YOUR DAYS. — The introduction points to the
startling nature of the portent: it was unexampled; it was a cause of
consternation to all who beheld it; it would be recollected as a
sub...
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עָלֶ֖יהָ לִ בְנֵיכֶ֣ם סַפֵּ֑רוּ וּ
בְנֵיכֶם֙...
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THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD
Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1
JOEL, 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 des...
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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...
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Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was
the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather
than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible lo...
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The prophecy opens in a very striking manner. It is the Lord's word,
and therefore demands man's attention. And all ranks and orders are
appealed unto to regard the man of God's commission; young men...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
"The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like
Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than
Jonah), but differs ess...
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He then adds, _Tell it to your children, your children to their
children, their children to the next generation. _In this verse the
Prophet shows that the matter deserved to be remembered, and was not...
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The Spirit of God takes the opportunity afforded by an unparalleled
scarcity, caused by the invasion of innumerable armies of insects, to
rouse the attention of the people with respect to the day of J...
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TELL YE YOUR CHILDREN OF IT,.... Give them a particular account of it;
describe the creatures and their number as near as you can; say when
they begun and how long they continued, and what devastation...
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Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their
children, and their children another generation.
Ver. 3. _Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell
their children_] He...
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_Hear this, ye old men_ Ye that have seen and remember many things.
_Hath this been in your days_, &c. Give attention; and when you have
heard and considered, say whether any thing like the calamities...
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A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
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Tell ye your children of it and let your children tell their children
and their children another generation, passing it on from father to
son, all of them accepting this tradition with awe, fear, and...
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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 destr...
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Declare it very particularly, or record it, write it as in a book,
that your children may know it, and the memory of it may be
perpetuated; for as it was a very wonderful and unusual thing, so it
was...
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Joel 1:3 Tell H5608 (H8761) children H1121 children H1121 children
H1121 children H1121 another H312 generation H1755...
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THE CALL TO HEAR WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY (JOEL 1:2).
The prophecy opens with a call to all in Judah to hear what God has to
say. The opening call has in mind Exodus 10:1 which, in the context of
a plague...
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CONTENTS: Joel's warnings of desolation upon Israel, and call to
repentance. The plague of insects.
CHARACTERS: God, Joel.
CONCLUSION: Those who will not be aroused out of their security by the
Word...
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Joel 1:1. _Joel, the son of Pethuel._ Nothing can be gathered from
antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His
father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presumed f...
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_The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel._
JOEL
Great as is the variety in the works of nature, it is no less so in
the treasury of God’s Word. The “prophets” are quite unlike the
r...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:1 The Judgment against Judah and the Day of the
Lord. This first part of Joel introduces the Lord’s judgment in the
form of a locust infestation, drought, and the coming of a great...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:3 TELL YOUR CHILDREN. See Deuteronomy 6:4.
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CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophecy opens with lamentation over the land,
made desolate by successive swarms of locusts. Joel 1:2 contain the
spirited introduction. OLD MEN] are called upon to note the unus...
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EXPOSITION
JOEL 1:1
THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. The name
Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in
Scripture of several of the same name, b...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Joel.
Joel is a prophet of which we have no light of his background except
what he gives to us. He is the son of Pethuel, but who Pethuel is, we
don't know....
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Deuteronomy 6:7; Exodus 10:1; Exodus 10:2; Exodus 13:14; Isaiah 38:19;...