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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joel 2:14

He will return — God doth not move from one place to another; but when he withholds his blessings, he is said to withdraw himself. And so when he gives out his blessing, he is said to return. And leave a blessing behind him — Cause the locusts to depart before they have eaten up all that is in the land.

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See also Joel 2:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 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 _cattl...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHO KNOWETH IF HE WILL RETURN - God has promised forgiveness of sins and of eternal punishment to those who turn to Him with their whole heart. Of this, then, there could be no doubt. But He has not p...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE REPENTANCE AND RESTORATION OF ISRAEL CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The alarm sounded and the day at hand (Joel 2:1) _ 2. The invading army from the north (Joel 2:3) 3. The rep...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EVEN YET HUMILIATION AND REPENTANCE MAY AVERT THE WORST. But even now, though the calamity is so serious that it seems to be the precursor of the Day of Dread, Yahweh bids the people turn to Him with...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHO KNOWETH... ? That this refers to Jehovah is clear from Jonah 3:9. RETURN TURN AWAY FROM (His fierce anger], as in Jonah 3:9, whore it is ascribed to "God". Same word as in Joel 2:12. A BLESSING:...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Nevertheless, it is still not too late to avert the judgement by earnest penitence; for God is gracious and compassionate, and ready to pardon those who turn to Him with their whole heart. Cf. Jeremia...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Who knoweth if he will_ lit. _Who knoweth? he will_…, i.e. _Peradventure he will_…, or (R.V.) WHO KNOWETH WHETHER HE WILL NOT …? The same idiom in 2 Samuel 12:22, and (in the same phrase as here) Jon...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE LORD'S INVITATION TO REPENT -- JOEL 2:12-17:_ At that moment it was not too late for the people to return to the Lord with all their heart and to cry in repentance to him. They were told to fast...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1180 REPENTANCE URGED Joel 2:12. Now, saith the Lord, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garmen...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. PLAN FOR REPENTANCE TEXT: Joel 2:12-17 12 Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 and rend your heart, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? WHO KNOWETH IF HE WILL RETURN AND REPENT, AND LEAVE A BL...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:14 repent, (e-7) Or 'repent again.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    REPENTANCE FOLLOWED BY RESTORATION Joel 2:1 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come (Joel 2:1). The advance of the locusts into the city...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִ֥י יֹודֵ֖עַ יָשׁ֣וּב וְ נִחָ֑ם וְ הִשְׁאִ֤י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Having thus dealt with the actual visitation and its terrible devastation, and having called the people into the place of humiliation, the prophet rose to a higher level, and interpreted the visitatio...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Who knoweth [if] he will (k) return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? (k) He speaks this to stir up their slothfulness,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Who knoweth. Confidence in God and repentance must accompany prayer. --- Blessing; plentiful crops, so that the usual sacrifices may be performed again, chap. i. 9._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a gracious invitation is contained in these words. How tenderly the Lord reasons with his people. And what an encouraging assurance it folds up with. Reader! do not fail to observe that this call...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 Proph...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Joel 2:1 sounds the alarm, because the day is near. The day is then described as the invasion of a people, the like of whom had never been seen by Israel or the land. It was, in fact, the army of Jeho...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHO KNOWETH [IF] HE WILL RETURN AND REPENT,.... Which some understand of man, and of his returning and repentance; either thus whosoever he be that knows the ways of repentance, he will return, and Go...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? Ver. 14. _Who knoweth if he will return and repent, &c...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore, also now_, &c. Or, _Nevertheless, also now, saith the Lord_, &c. Here a method is pointed out, whereby they might still have hopes of avoiding the calamity denounced against them, namely,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Who knoweth if He will return, not carry out the threatened punishment, AND REPENT, AND LEAVE A BLESSING BEHIND HIM, namely, when He, as men pictured Him, returns to His throne in heaven, EVEN A MEAT-...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven aga...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    None need be discouraged, as if it were too late to seek and hope for mercy; God will pardon the truly penitent, and deliver them from eternal miseries, and it is possible he may deliver from present...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 2:14 knows H3045 (H8802) turn H7725 (H8799) relent H5162 (H8738) leave H7604 (H8689) blessing...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JOEL CALLS THE PRIESTS AND PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE IN THE HOPE THAT YHWH WOULD TURN AWAY HIS JUDGMENT (JOEL 2:12). The call to repentance divides into two sections, the first an appeal to the people by...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE TO REPENT AND TURN TO HIM (JOEL 2:12). This is probably to be seen as all in the words of YHWH in spite of the change to the third person half way through and the question...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Day of vengeance upon Israel. Invading hosts and awful scourges. Repentance of the Jewish remnant and Jehovah's response and deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Joel. CONCLUSION: The...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joel 2:1. _Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,_ to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2. Joel 2:2. _A day of darkness, nigrum esse._ The army of locusts obscured the light whil...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL 2:1 Army Invasion: The Arrival of the Day of the Lord. Joel describes the coming of an army, whose arrival may yet be prevented by a wholehearted return to the Lord. Verses Joel 2:1 describe the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:14 WHO KNOWS. The sovereign God acts according to his own purposes. TURN AND RELENT suggests that the Lord, in keeping with his revealed character, will bring blessing instead of d...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 2:12. THEREFORE] repent with HEART undivided, and with FASTING, for heinous sins demand extraordinary penitence. MOURNING] Lit. beating on the breast, like the publican (Luke 18:...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOEL 2:1 These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned by the locusts and the appearance presented by them; the calling of a congregational meeting for penitence a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now he uses this as the springboard and he begins to speak now of a yet future day of devastation that is coming from armies that are to invade the land. And in the second chapter, as he describes thi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 6:5; 2 Corinthians 9:5; 2 Kings 19:4; 2 Samuel 12:22;...

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