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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Joel 2:26

Verse 26. Praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you] In so destroying this formidable enemy; and so miraculously restoring the land to fertility, after so great a devastation.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND YE SHALL EAT IN PLENTY AND BE SATISFIED - It is of the punishment of God, when people eat and are not satisfied (see Hosea 4:10); it is man’s sin, that they are satisfied, and do not to praise God...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YE SHALL EAT, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:5). App-92. EAT. eat on. PRAISE, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:24.Deuteronomy 12:7;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and praise_, &c. In acknowledgment of His bounty: cf. (of the Canaanites) Judges 9:27 (R.V. _marg_.). _shall never be ashamed_ or _disappointed_(on Joel 1:11), being worthy of, and accordingly receiv...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1181 REMOVAL OF JUDGMENTS A GROUND OF PRAISE Joel 2:26. _Ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my peo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND YE SHALL EAT IN PLENTY, &C.— _And ye shall certainly eat, and be satisfied,_ &c. Dr. Sharpe observes, that these words cannot, with any degree of sense, or propriety of language, be interpreted of...

  • 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

    And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. AND MY PEOPLE SHALL NEVER BE ASHAM...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AND MY PEOPLE, etc.] probably by copyist error from next verse. 27. The rain and the harvests are evidences of Jehovah's presence. ISRAEL] the Jewish community so called after the exile. NONE ELSE] an...

  • 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....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם אָכֹול֙ וְ שָׂבֹ֔ועַ וְ הִלַּל

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _GOD’S PEOPLE UNASHAMED_ ‘And My people shall never he ashamed.’ Joel 2:26 There are three respects in which the promise of our text may be regarded as applying to those who answer to the descripti...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He now concludes what he has hitherto said of God’s blessing. As the Jews were starving while God was offended, so he promises that when reconciled to him they should have abundance of produce from th...

  • 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 YE SHALL EAT IN PLENTY,.... Or, "in eating eat" n; most surely eat, and in great abundance; which Hebraism not only denotes the certainty of a thing, but the increase and abundance of it; see Gen...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. Ver. 26. _And ye shall eat in plenty...

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

    _And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten _ I will compensate you, or make you amends, for what the locusts have eaten in the foregoing years, by an extraordinary plenty of the f...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And ye shall eat in plenty, having an abundance of the best food, AND BE SATISFIED AND PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD, THAT HATH DEALT WONDROUSLY WITH YOU, making His wonders known through the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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

  • 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

    YE SHALL EAT; enjoy and live upon. _In plenty_; not with scarcity, as when water is measured to them, and bread is given by weight, EZEKIEL 4:16. BE SATISFIED; the broad they eat shall refresh them, m...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 2:26 eat H398 (H8804) plenty H398 (H8800) satisfied H7646 (H8800) praise H1984 (H8765) name...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Joel 2:26 There are three respects in which the promise of our text may be regarded as applying to those who answer to the description of the people of God. The believer has no cause to be ashamed: ...

  • 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 ye shall eat in plenty._ THE PROMISE OF PLENTY A MOTIVE TO GRATITUDE I. The branches of this promise. 1. “Ye shall eat in plenty.” To eat and to eat in plenty, are pleasures which threatenings...

  • 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 John 2:28; 1 Timothy 4:3; 1 Timothy 6:17; Deuteronomy 12:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wondrously — In one year giving as much as the locusts wasted in the years foregoing. Ashamed — Neither disappointed of your hopes, nor necessitated to seek relief among the heathen....

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