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Joel 2:21

JOEL—NOTE ON Joel 2:21 The “foul smell” (v. Joel 2:20) of corpses is all that remains of the great enemy. This contrasts with the great things done by the Lord, whose acts of salvation are the reason for the command to fear not.

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See also Joel 2:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 21. _FEAR NOT - FOR THE LORD WILL DO GREAT THINGS._] The words are _repeated_ from the preceding verse; Jehovah will do great things in _driving them away_, and supernaturally restoring the land...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FEAR NOT, O LAND - Before, they were bidden to tremble Joel 2:1, now they are bidden, “fear not;” before, “to turn in weeping, fasting and mourning;” now, “to bound for joy and rejoice;” before, “the...

  • 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

    JOEL 2:18 Joel 3:21. YAHWEH'S GRACIOUS RESPONSE TO THE PRAYER OF INTERCESSION. Joel 2:18. The Locusts shall be Destroyed and the Inhabitants of the Land Rejoice in Renewed Prosperity....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FEAR NOT. Figure of speech _Apostrophe._ App-6. LAND. soil. Hebrew. _'adamah. See_ note on Joel 1:10. WILL DO GREAT THINGS. Greater than the foe himself (Joel 2:20)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The prophet here speaks himself; and developing in jubilant tones the promise of Joel 2:19, first of all (Joel 2:21) bids in turn the land, the beasts of the field, and the children of Zion, exult on...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Part II. Chap. Joel 2:18 to Joel 3:21 Jehovah's answer to His people's prayer of penitence. He will remove from them the plague of locusts, and bestow upon them an abundance of both material and spir...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _O land_ more exactly, O GROUND; i.e. the soil which until now has been "mourning" (Joel 1:10) under the sore visitation. _for_ JEHOVAH HATH DONE _great things_ exactly the same phrase as in Joel 2:20...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE -- JOEL 2:18-27:_ The People of Judah would spend seventy years in Babylonian captivity. Even while they were there the Lord was deeply concerned about the land and He...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FEAR NOT, O LAND, &C.— In the former part of this prophesy the land is elegantly represented as mourning, the beasts groaning, and the herds of cattle as greatly distressed; the rivers of water as dri...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE IMMEDIATE BLESSINGS TEXT: Joel 2:18-27 18 Then was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his people. 19 And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behol...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. FEAR NOT, O LAND ... BE NOT AFRAID, YE BEASTS OF THE FIELD ... BE GLAD THEN, YE CHILDREN OF ZION. In an ascending gradatio...

  • 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

    THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 2 THE ARMY OF *LOCUSTS V1 Blow the *trumpet in *Zion. Tell the people on the *Lord’s hill to watch for trouble....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FEAR NOT, O LAND... — The sentence of the reversal of judgment has gone forth, and all nature — animate and inanimate, rational and irrational — which had been included in the curse is summoned to rej...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַל ־תִּֽירְאִ֖י אֲדָמָ֑ה גִּ֣ילִי וּ שְׂמָ֔חִי...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PROSPERITY AND THE SPIRIT Joel 2:18 "THEN did Jehovah become jealous for His land, and took pity upon His people"-with these words Joel opens the second half of his book. Our Authorized Version rende...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    1. THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY Joel 2:19 "And Jehovah answered and said to His people: Lo, I will send you corn and wine and oil, And your fill shall ye have of them; And I will not again make you a rep...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE AVERTING OF JUDGMENT Joel 2:12-27 To rend the garment is easy, but a broken and contrite heart can be imparted only by the grace of the Holy Spirit. The love of God should bring us to repentance....

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here comes in what all along seems to have been intimated, how gracious the Lord would deal with his people. This is ever the case. When the Lord is coming forth to bless, he puts his people to pray....

  • 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

    Here he shows that God would have his turn to exalt himself, which the Assyrian presumptuously attempted to do. For God seems for a time to lie still, when he withholds himself, when he puts not forth...

  • 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

    FEAR NOT, O LAND,.... O land of Israel, as the Targum, and the inhabitants of it; neither of the locusts, who had so terrified them, and had done so much mischief, and threatened more; nor of their en...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Ver. 21. _Fear not, O land_] O red earth, or O tilled land, that hast lain bedridden, as it were under the heavy curse of God...

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

    _Fear not, O land_, &c. “In the former part of this prophecy the land is elegantly represented as mourning, the beasts groaning, and the herds of cattle as greatly distressed; the rivers of water drie...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Fear not, O land, the entire country being included in this new admonition, as before; BE GLAD AND REJOICE, namely, over the hosts that laid waste the country; FOR THE LORD WILL DO GREAT THINGS, Jehov...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-27 The priests and rulers are to appoint a solemn fast. The sinner's supplication is, Spare us, good Lord. God is ready to succour his people; and he waits to be gracious. They prayed that God wou...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FEAR NOT, O LAND. In JOEL 2:10, the land is said to quake at the approach of this devouring army; now at the approach of mercy it is encouraged, and commanded not to fear; by the same figure and in th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 2:21 Fear H3372 (H8799) land H127 glad H1523 (H8798) rejoice H8055 (H8798) LORD H3068 done...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HAVING ACCEPTED HIS PEOPLE'S REPENTANCE YHWH PROMISES TO DELIVER THEM FROM THE PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS BY CASTING THE LOCUSTS INTO THE SEAS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE LAND AND THAT HE WILL THEN RESTORE THE FRUIT...

  • 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

    _Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things._ THE INFLUENCE OF A REPENTANT SOUL UPON THE UNIVERSE AT LARGE I. There is a tendency in the influence of a repentant soul to...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 2:21. FEAR NOT] as in ch. 1, on account of judgments, but rejoice in the destruction of the hosts. JOEL 2:22.] Verdant pastures and trees laden with fruit shall be given. Beast...

  • 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 12:16; 1 Samuel 12:24; Deuteronomy 4:32; Genesis 15:1; Ho

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