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Verse 15. _ALAS FOR THE DAY!_] The _Syriac repeats_ this, the
_Vulgate, Septuagint_, and _Arabic_, thrice: "Alas, alas, alas, for
the day!"
_AS A DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY_] The destruction that...
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ALAS FOR THE DAY! FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - The judgment of
God, then, which they were to deprecate, was still to come. : “All
times and all days are God’s. Yet they are said to be our days...
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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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A CALL FOR A FAST AND SOLEMN INTERCESSION. The prophet bids the
priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and
lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual...
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THE DAY OF THE LORD. See note on Isaiah 2:12. This is the great
subject of Joel's prophecy, already the. "at hand".
DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia
(App-6). Hebre...
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The cessation of the daily sacrifices again occupies the prophet's
thought; and he turns to the priests, bidding them not mourn only
(Joel 1:9), but clothe themselves in sackcloth, and proclaim a day...
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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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The prophet states more distinctly the ground for the exhortations of
Joel 1:13. The present calamity is viewed by him as the harbinger of a
far sorer calamity to come, even of the great "Day of Jehov...
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_THE DAY OF THE LORD -- JOEL 1:14-17:_ Joel encouraged the priest to
call for a fast all across the land. It was time for the entire nation
to repent. The Law of Moses did not require a regular fast....
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THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND— See Jeremiah 46:10 and Ezekiel 30:3....
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THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d)
TEXT: Joel 1:13-20
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Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye
ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...
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Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a
destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - (Joel 2:1; Joel 2:11) i:e., the day
of His anger (Isaiah...
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1:15 Almighty (e-18) See Note, Isaiah 13:6 ....
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THE DAY OF THE LORD] early in popular thought a time when Jehovah
granted victory unto Israel (Amos 5:18), but in prophetic discourse a
time of signal divine manifestation in judgment (as here in the...
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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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ALAS. — The exclamation is repeated three times in the LXX. and
Vulg., thus giving occasion to Jeremy Taylor’s comment: “When the
prophet Joel was describing the formidable accidents in the day of the...
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אֲהָ֖הּ לַ † יֹּ֑ום כִּ֤י קָרֹוב֙
יֹ֣ום...
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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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Alas for the day! for the (i) day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a
destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
(i) We see by these great plagues that utter destruction is at hand....
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_Day. Hebrew ahah layom: (Haydock) "Ah, what a day!" --- Mighty.
Septuagint, "destruction." They have read in a different manner. God
is about to give sentence, (Calmet) and to send Nabuchodonosor, (S...
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The preceding verses having described the ruin of all flesh by reason
of sin, here comes the judgment. The Prophet unable to enter into the
particulars of the dreadful day of account, only cries out u...
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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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_A DAY OF JUDGMENT_
‘The day of the Lord is at hand.’
Joel 1:15
In the first two Chapter s Joel foretells, under the figure of an
army, a most terrible plague of locusts. The palmer-worm, locust,
c...
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It now follows, _Alas the day! for nigh is the day of Jehovah. _Here
the Prophet, as it was at first stated, threatens something worse in
future than what they had experienced. He has hitherto been sh...
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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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ALAS FOR THE DAY! FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD [IS] AT HAND,.... A time of
severer and heavier judgments than these of the locusts, caterpillars,
c. which were a presage and emblem of greater ones, even of...
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Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a
destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Ver. 15. _Alas, for the day, &c._] Gr. Alas, Alas, Alas; the Vulgate
Latin A, A, A, which...
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_Alas for the day!_ Wo to us! The time in which God will inflict on us
the punishments we have long deserved is now near; and if they be not
averted by our repentance, they will fall upon us in an irr...
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Alas for the day! so the prophet himself laments, FOR THE DAY OF THE
LORD, the time of His stern visitation, IS AT HAND, AND AS A
DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY SHALL IT COME, bringing its desolating
s...
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PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...
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14-20 The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and
humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin
must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this
purp...
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This verse and the three next may be looked upon either as a
particular declaration of the grounds of this fast, or as a direction
how to manage the fast, a suggesting to the people what they should
s...
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Joel 1:15 Alas H162 day H3117 day H3117 LORD H3068 hand H7138 come
H935 (H8799) destruction H7701 Almighty...
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A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JOEL 1:6).
The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to
devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences in
the d...
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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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_Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a
destruction from the Almighty shall it come._
THE DAY OF THE LORD
The prophet intimates that the destruction caused by the flight of th...
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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 1:15 THE DAY OF THE LORD is a major theme in Joel.
It can refer to a particular act of judgment, like the devastation of
the locusts, or it can refer to the future final judgment. “T...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
JOEL 1:15. THE DAY] of anger (Isaiah 13:9) and ill omen; evil in
itself, and foreshadowing greater evils; a transition from invading
locusts to the day of judgment upon all ungodly me...
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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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Amos 5:16; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 7:2; Isaiah 13:6; James 5:9;...