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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:4

That which the palmer-worm hath left, &c.— Bochart has given many probable reasons to believe, that the four Hebrew words here used, חסיל chasil, ילק ielek, ארבה arbeh, גזם gazam, signify four species of locust; which the learned reader will find in his Hieroz. tom. ii. lib. v. c. 1. See also Scheuchzer on the place.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 4. _THAT WHICH THE PALMERWORM HATH LEFT_] Here he begins to open his message, and the words he chooses show that he is going to announce a devastation of the land by _locusts_, and a _famine_ co...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THAT WHICH THE PALMERWORM HATH LEFT, HATH THE LOCUST EATEN - The creatures here spoken of are different kinds of locusts, so named from their number or voracity. We, who are free from this scourge of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOEL 1:2 TO JOEL 2:17. A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS, AND A SUMMONS TO AN ASSEMBLY FOR CONFESSION AND INTERCESSION. Joel 1:2. The Unprecedented Character of the Plague. No living Jew has exp...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THAT WHICH, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:38). Compare Joel 2:25. The English of this verse is beautifully idiomatic, but twelve Hebrew words condense the whole. See below. PALMERWORM. T...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17 Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may yet be averted by the nation...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The calamity to which the prophet has thus emphatically directed his hearers" attention: a visitation of locusts, repeated for more years than one (Joel 2:25), and of unexampled severity; what had esc...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE EXTENT OF THE PLEA FOR REPENTANCE; VIVID, ARRESTING TEXT: Joel 1:4-12 4 That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eate...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. THAT WH...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:4 palmer-worm (a-4) cankerworm (a-20) Probably different species of locust, or in different stages of growth, as 'grub,' 'creeper,' 'feeder.' See Note, Psalms 105:34 . caterpillar (b-31) Or 'devoure...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THAT WHICH THE PALMERWORM HATH LEFT. — The picture is introduced suddenly and graphically. “Behold the desolation!” “Note the cause.” The earth is bared by locusts beyond all previous experience. Ther...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יֶ֤תֶר הַ גָּזָם֙ אָכַ֣ל הָֽ אַרְבֶּ֔ה וְ

  • 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

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Left, &c. Some understand this literally of the desolation of the land by these insects: others understand it of the different invasions of the Chaldeans, or other enemies. (Challoner) --- Jerusalem w...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    He adds what that judgment was, — that the hope of food had for many years disappointed them. It often happened, we know, that locusts devoured the standing corn; and then the chafers and the palmer w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THAT WHICH THE PALMER WORM HATH LEFT HATH THE LOCUST EATEN,.... These, with the two following, are four kinds of, locusts as Jarchi observes; though it is difficult to fix the particular species desig...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. Ver. 4. _...

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

    _That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten_ A succession of noxious creatures hath perfectly destroyed the fruits of the earth; which makes this judgment so strange and remarkable. It...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    That which the palmer-worm, literally, "the gnawer-off,". HATH LEFT HATH THE LOCUST EATEN, the swarming or multiplying locust of the Orient; AND THAT WHICH THE LOCUST HATH LEFT HATH THE CANKER-WORM, t...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THAT WHICH THE PALMERWORM HATH LEFT: _ Heb._ The residue of the palmerworm...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Four sorts of insects pernicious to all sorts of trees, corn, and herbs are here mentioned, which did succeed each other, and devoured all that might be a future support to the Jews; whence ensued a g...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 1:4 locust H1501 left H3499 locust H697 eaten H398 (H8804) locust H697 left H3499 locust H3218 eaten...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL TO HEAR WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY (JOEL 1:2). The prophecy opens with a call to all in Judah to hear what God has to say. The opening call has in mind Exodus 10:1 which, in the context of a plague...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    PALMERWORM The palmerworm, locust, etc, are thought to be different forms, at different stages of development, of one insect. The essential fact is that, according to the usual method of the Spirit i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:1 The Judgment against Judah and the Day of the Lord. This first part of Joel introduces the Lord’s judgment in the form of a locust infestation, drought, and the coming of a great...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:4 The LOCUST is a kind of grasshopper. Under the right conditions they travel in large swarms and destroy all plant life in their path (CUTTING... SWARMING... HOPPING... DESTROYING...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28; 2 Chronicles 7:13; Amos 4:9; Amos 7:1

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Palmer — worm — Four sorts of insects, are here mentioned, which succeeded each other, and devoured all that might be a support to the Jews, whence ensued a grievous famine....

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