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Joel 2:32

JOEL—NOTE ON Joel 2:32 everyone. Salvation is extended beyond the devastation caused by the locusts. calls on the name. Paul quotes this in Romans 10:13. He understood these verses to describe events in the messianic age, when Jews and Gentiles alike would be saved.

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See also Joel 2:32 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joel 2:32. _WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD_] כל אשר יקרא בשם יהוה _col asher yikra beshem Yehovah_, "All who shall _invoke_ in the name of Jehovah." That CHRIST is the _Jehovah_ h...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD - To call upon the name of the Lord, is to worship Him, as He is, depending “upon” Him. “The name of the Lord,” expresses His True Being, That which He i...

  • 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

    THE PORTENTS OF THE DAY OF YAHWEH. The deliverance from the locusts is but a harbinger of the time coming when Yahweh will impart His spirit to all Jews for to such the context evidently restricts all...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IN MOUNT ZION. Compare Isaiah 46:13; Isaiah 59:20; Obadiah 1:17; Zechariah 14:1.

  • 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

    Those however who have responded to the grace given to them (Joel 2:28 f.), and are the true servants of Jehovah, will be secure, even in the midst of such alarming manifestations (cf. Joel 3:16 _b_)....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    __ Prophecy pointing to Pentecost -- Joel 2:28-32: The last verses of Joel two are a very famous prophecy quoted by Peter on the day of Pentecost on which the church was established. (Acts 2:17-21) Th...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1182 SIGNS OF THE MESSIAH’S ADVENT Joel 2:28. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old m...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL, &C.— This expression seems to have a double meaning in the sacred writings. Sometimes it signifies to call oneself by or to be called by the name of Jehovah: thus, Genesis 4:26....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE (cont-'d) FUTURE BLESSINGS (GOD PREPARING A NEW PEOPLE) TEXT: Joel 2:28-32 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant who...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:32 deliverance, (g-26) Or 'an escape,' as Jeremiah 25:35 ....

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'In Jerusalem shall be those that escape as Jehovah hath said, and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.' In the general destruction the condition of escape is calling on Jehovah, and the...

  • 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

    DELIVERANCE. — Or, perhaps better, _those that escape._ St. Paul quotes from this verse (Romans 10:13), transferring the reference to the Messianic advent, to prove the universality of the deliverance...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Joel 3:5]_ וְ הָיָ֗ה כֹּ֧ל אֲשֶׁר ־יִקְרָ֛א...

  • 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)

    2. THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT Joel 2:28 Upon these promises of physical blessing there follows another of the pouring forth of the Spirit: the prophecy by which Joel became the Prophet of Pentecos...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE VALLEY OF DECISION” Joel 2:28-32; Joel 3:1-21 Having stated the outward blessings that would follow repentance, Joel unveils the extraordinary spiritual blessings that were in store. The outpour...

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

    Finally the prophet moved on to a yet higher level, and dealt wholly with things to come. The great word introducing the section is "afterward." Some of the things foretold have now been fulfilled, so...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call (u) on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the (x) re...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Call. Amid these fears, those who trust in the Lord shall have nothing to suffer. Cambyses could not execute his designs. But the prophet here alludes still more to the conversion of the Gentiles, Ac...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! let us both pause over this most striking Chapter, and looking up for the fulfilment of the sweet promise at the close of it, in our own personal interest beg that we may indeed, a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    But here we have the sum and substance of the whole in one of the richest promises ever made, as the effect of salvation, and most comprehensive of all blessings. It is impossible to err in the explan...

  • 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

    We said yesterday that the Prophet denounced future calamities, that he might thus stimulate men, distressed by many evils, to seek God: we indeed know how tardy we are by nature, except the Lord goad...

  • 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

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, [THAT] WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE DELIVERED,.... Or "saved", as in Acts 2:21; from those miseries and calamities before described, from the impend...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant wh...

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

    _And whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord_ Whosoever, having heard the gospel, shall repent and believe in Christ, and call on him, or shall make application to God in prayer through him, _sha...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it shall come to pass, throughout this great period of the Lord's preparation for the final Judgment, during the entire Messianic period, THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD, confess...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    28-32 The promise began to be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out, and it was continued in the converting grace and miraculous gifts conferred on both Jews and Gent...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Yet when nature seems out of course, and such terrible convulsions overthrow all states and kingdoms, and nothing but ruin and destruction appear on every side, yet then most certainly IT SHALL COME T...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 2:32 calls H7121 (H8799) name H8034 LORD H3068 saved H4422 (H8735) Mount H2022 Zion H6726 Jerusalem...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROMISE OF GREAT SPIRITUAL BLESSING YET TO BE ‘POURED OUT' AND PORTENTS OF JUDGMENT TO COME (JOEL 2:28). And as a result of their restoration to Him through repentance and their turning to Him, He...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    REMNANT (_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 15:21). _...

  • 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

    _And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved._ This gracious promise is an instance of the merciful providence of God, so universally displayed in His...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 2:28. AFTERWARD] These outward things are only a type of spiritual gifts, a prospect of richer blessings; and a grander dispensation is held out, a dispensation remarkable for th...

  • 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 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:14; Acts 15:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Whosoever shall call — Who hearing the gospel repents and believes in Christ. Delivered — Either from those outward afflictions, or which is infinitely better from eternal miseries, which will swallow...

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