-
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JOEL
_Chronological Notes relative to the commencement of Joel's_
_prophesying, upon the supposition that this event took place_
_about_ six hundred and ninety _years before...
-
THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL - Joel, like Hosea, mentions
the name of his father only, and then is silent about his extraction,
his tribe, his family. He leaves even the time when he lived,...
-
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...
-
JOEL 1:1. A SHORT SUPERSCRIPTION....
-
TITLE. The word of the LORD. Therefore not Joel's. This is the Divine
key to the book Joel's pen, but not Joel's words, Compare Acts 1:16
for. similar fact concerning David.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehova...
-
The Title
1. _The word of_ JEHOVAH _that came unto_ so Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1;
Zephaniah 1:1.
_came unto_ lit. _was_(ἐγένετο) _unto_, a very common
expression in connexion with Jehovah's -word":...
-
_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...
-
THE EXCLAIMER OF REPENTANCEGOD'S PROPHET
TEXT: Joel 1:1-3
1
The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
2
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Hath
this...
-
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL. He records nothing of himself
except his divine commission. He desired to live as before God, and...
-
1:1 (g-0) * (The title of this book, 'Joel'), Said to mean, 'Jehovah
is God.'...
-
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...
-
JOEL] see Intro. PETHUEL] entirely unknown.
4. The PALMERWORM, CANKERWORM, CATERPILLER, and LOCUST, are not
different insects, but in the original four different names of the
locust, possibly represe...
-
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...
-
JOEL. — Compounded of Jehovah — El, the composite title of the God
of Revelation and of Nature, which is the subject of Psalms 19. It was
a favourite name among the Jews, and was borne by an ancestor...
-
דְּבַר ־יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָ֔ה אֶל
־יֹואֵ֖ל ב
-
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...
-
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...
-
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
The Argument - The Prophet Joel first rebukes those of Judah, that
being now punished with a great plague of famine, still remain
obstinate....
-
_Planted. Septuagint, "Bathuel." He was born in the tribe of Gad, at
Bethaven, the town which Herod styles Livias, Josue xiii. 27.
(Calmet)_...
-
CONTENTS.
The Prophecy begins with an account of a dreadful affliction to be
accomplished on Judea. The Prophet exhorts the people to repentance,
and appointeth a fast....
-
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...
-
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...
-
_THE PROPHET JOEL_
‘The word of the Lord that came to Joel.’
Joel 1:1
There is this value in the study of Joel—that he touches nearly the
whole round of the Christian year, or which is the same thi...
-
_The word of Jehovah which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel_. He names
here his father; it is hence probable that he was a man well known and
of some celebrity. But who this Pethuel was, all now are i...
-
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...
-
THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. Who this
Pethuel was is not known; Jarchi takes him to be the same with Samuel
the prophet, who had a son of this name, 1 Samuel 8:2; and giv...
-
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Ver. 1. _The word of the Lord that came, &c._] See the note on Hosea
1:1, with whom Jerome and some other interpreters make this prophet a
c...
-
_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...
-
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
-
The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel, the
superscription assuring us that we are not getting Joel's own ideas,
but the inspired words of Jehovah....
-
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...
-
JOEL CHAPTER 1
Joel declareth the destruction of the fruits of the earth by noxious
insects, JOEL 1:1 , and by a long drought, JOEL 1:8 . He recommendeth
a solemn fasting with prayer to deprecate thes...
-
Joel 1:1 word H1697 LORD H3068 Joel H3100 son H1121 Pethuel H6602
word - Jeremiah 1:2;...
-
‘The word of YHWH which came to Joel the son of Pethuel.'
The whole prophecy is summed up in these words. It is to be seen as
‘the word of YHWH', that is, as God speaking directly to Judah. And
He di...
-
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...
-
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...
-
_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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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....
-
2 Peter 1:21; Acts 2:16; Ezekiel 1:3; Hosea 1:1; Jeremiah 1:2...
-
Came to Joel — Probably in the latter end of Jeroboam the second's
reign over Israel and in the days of Uzziah, over Judah....