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Verse 23. _THE FORMER RAIN MODERATELY_] המורה לצדקה
_hammoreh_ _litsedakah_, "the former rain in righteousness," that is,
in _due_ _time_ and in _just proportion_. This rain fell after
_autumn_, the o...
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BE GLAD THEN AND REJOICE IN THE LORD YOUR GOD - All things had been
restored for their sakes; they were to rejoice, not chiefly in these
things, but in God; nor only in God, but in the Lord their God....
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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...
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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....
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_hath given_ another instance of the prophetic perfect.
_the former rain … and the latter rain_ Heb. _môreh_, and
_malḳôsh:_the rains which marked respectively the beginning and the
close of the wet s...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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THE FORMER RAIN MODERATELY— _The former rain in benignity:_ or, as
Houbigant renders it, _A teacher of righteousness._ See
_Observations,_ p. 22....
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III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE IMMEDIATE BLESSINGS
TEXT: Joel 2:18-27
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Then was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
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And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behol...
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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...
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2:23 measure, (b-23) Or 'richly.' Lit. 'in righteousness.' rain,
(c-36) See Note f, Psalms 84:6 . season]. (d-46) Or 'in the first
[month].'...
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MODERATELY] RV 'in just measure.' THE FORMER.. AND THE LATTER RAIN]
the rains at seedtime in early winter and before the harvest in early
spring. IN THE FIRST _month_] RM 'at (= as at) the first,' i.e...
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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...
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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....
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YE CHILDREN OF ZION — _i.e.,_ they were called upon to manifest
their rejoicings in the place where the trumpet had been sounded for
the proclamation of the fast.
THE FORMER RAIN MODERATELY. — St. Pau...
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וּ בְנֵ֣י צִיֹּ֗ון גִּ֤ילוּ וְ
שִׂמְחוּ֙ בַּ
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God:
for he hath given you the former rain (p) moderately, and he will
cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the lat...
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_Teacher; Joel, &c., or rather the Messias, John i. 9., and Matthew
xxiii. 8. Some translate Hebrew, "rain." Septuagint, "meat," (Calmet)
sufficient for the people. (Theodoret)_...
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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....
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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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He now exhorts the Jews also to rejoice, but in a way different from
that of the land and of the beasts. _Rejoice, _he says, _in your God.
_For the beasts and the sheep, while rejoicing, cannot raise...
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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...
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BE GLAD THEN, YE CHILDREN OF ZION,.... The people of the Jews, and
especially the spiritual and believing part of them; such as were born
again, that were born of Zion, and born in Zion, and brought u...
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Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God:
for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to
come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter...
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_He hath given you the former rain moderately_ The season of the
former rain was about the middle of October. The Hebrew word
לצדקה, rendered _moderately_, literally signifies, _according to
righteous...
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Be glad, then, ye children of Zion, the inhabitants of Judah, the
children of the Lord, AND REJOICE IN THE LORD, YOUR GOD, the God of
the covenant, the Lord of mercy; FOR HE HATH GIVEN YOU THE FORMER...
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God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...
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FORMER RAIN:
Or, a teacher of righteousness
MODERATELY:
_ Heb._ according to righteousness...
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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...
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BE GLAD THEN, YE CHILDREN OF ZION: in the former verse the prophet, by
a usual figure, and with known elegancy, called on land and beasts,
though they understood him not; now he addresseth himself to...
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Joel 2:23 glad H1523 (H8798) children H1121 Zion H6726 rejoice H8055
(H8798) LORD H3068 God H430 given...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 4:7; Deuteronomy 11:14; Deuteronomy 28:12; Deuteronomy 32:2;...
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The former rain — The autumn rain which is needful to mellow the
earth and fit it to receive the corn. The latter rain — Needful to
bring forward and ripen the fruits, accounted the latter rain becaus...