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BEFORE THEIR FACE THE PEOPLE SHALL BE MUCH PAINED - The locust being
such a scourge of God, good reason have men to be terrified at their
approach; and those are most terrified who have most felt the...
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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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LET THE ALARM BE SOUNDED, FOR THE LOCUSTS ARE PRECURSORS OF THE DAY OF
YAHWEH. Speaking in Yahweh's name the prophet bids the priests sound
the alarm from Mt. Zion, that all the community may realise...
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PEOPLE. people's.
BLACKNESS. paleness....
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The alarm to be caused by their approach, like that occasioned by the
advance of some vast horde of invaders.
AT THEIR PRESENCE PEOPLES ARE IN ANGUISH] not _people_, but _peoples_,
i.e. whole nations....
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Further description of the march of the locusts. They move on like
some mighty host: the noise of their approach is heard from afar; they
spread terror before them; their advance is irresistible; the...
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The signs of the approaching Day.
_A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness_
So Zephaniah 1:15. Four synonyms are combined, for the purpose of
emphasizing the darkness, whi...
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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...
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_THE DAY OF THE LORD IS GREAT -- JOEL 2:1-11:_ The trumpet was blown
to warn the nation of danger and invasion. The warning was sounded in
order that the people could tremble and make matters right wi...
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BEFORE THEIR FACE, &C.— _At their approach the people tremble: all
faces contract paleness._...
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THE EXECUTORGOD USING NATURAL AGENTS
TEXT: Joel 2:1-11
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Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain;
let all the inhabitants _of_ the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah
c...
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Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall
gather blackness.
BEFORE THEIR FACE THE PEOPLE SHALL BE MUCH PAINED - namely, with
terror. The Arab proverb is, 'More terrible th...
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RV 'At their presence the peoples are in anguish: all faces are waxed
pale.'...
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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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ALL FACES SHALL GATHER BLACKNESS. — There are different explanations
of this Hebrew phrase, which expresses the result of terror. Some
translate it “withdraw their ruddiness,” _i.e.,_ grow pale;
other...
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מִ פָּנָ֖יו יָחִ֣ילוּ עַמִּ֑ים כָּל
־פָּנִ֖ים...
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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...
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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...
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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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Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces (e) shall
gather blackness.
(e) They will be pale and black because of fear, as in (Nahum 2:10)....
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_Kettle. The Jews were naturally of a dark complexion. Fear causing
the blood to retire, would make them black, Isaias xiii. 8.,
Lamentations iv. 8., and v. 10. (Calmet)_...
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It will be very easy for a child of God to make a gracious improvement
of what is here said, if read spiritually with an eye to soul
exercises, in the conflicts of flesh and spirit, when once a life o...
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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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At length he adds, _As a strong people, prepared for battle; their
face the people will dread, and all faces shall gather blackness. _By
these words the Prophet intimates that the Assyrians at their c...
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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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BEFORE THEIR FACE THE PEOPLE SHALL BE MUCH PAINED,.... Or, "at their
presence"; at the sight of them they shall be in pain, as a woman in
travail; into such distress an army of locusts would throw the...
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Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall
gather blackness.
Ver. 6. _Before their face the people shall be much pained_] This is
a confirmation of the former assertion. The p...
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_The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses _
Bochart and many other writers mention the resemblance which the head
of a locust bears to that of a horse; whence the Italians call them
_cava...
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THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...
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Before their face, as they proceed on their path of devastation, THE
PEOPLE, all those so visited, SHALL BE MUCH PAINED, trembling and
helpless with terror; ALL FACES SHALL GATHER BLACKNESS, losing th...
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BLACKNESS:
_ Heb._ pot...
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1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of
the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal
consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven aga...
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BEFORE THEIR FACE, at the sight of these locusts, both literally and
figuratively considered, THE PEOPLE of the land shall be much pained;
as a woman in travail is in pain, their fears shall be very g...
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Joel 2:6 Before H6440 people H5971 pain H2342 (H8799) faces H6440
drained H6908 (H8765) color H6289
all -...
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THE MARCH OF THE YOUNG LOCUST/GRASSHOPPERSS (JOEL 2:4).
Joel then describes the onward ‘march' of the young locusts in their
mass movement made up of sheer numbers, advancing like a huge ‘army'
coveri...
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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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JOEL 2:1 Army Invasion: The Arrival of the Day of the Lord. Joel
describes the coming of an army, whose arrival may yet be prevented by
a wholehearted return to the Lord. Verses Joel 2:1 describe the...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter still urges repentance, directs for a
meeting of the people, and assures that God will have compassion.
JOEL 2:1. BLOW] Priests must sound an alarm, as if foreign invasi...
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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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Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 8:21; Lamentations 4:8; Nahum
2:10
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A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF JOEL
Joel 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The Book of Joel anticipates the day of Jehovah. The 1st chapter
has a definite historical setting, but it also looks forward in
anticipatio...
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Blackness — Such as is the colour of dead men, or the dark paleness
of men frightened into swoons....