Joel 2:21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joel 2:21-24

Joel called on the land, personified to represent its people, to rejoice because the Lord had done great things (in contrast to the enemy army, Joel 2:20). The NIV interpreted the last line of Joel 2:20 as referring to the Lord, but it probably refers to the invading army, as the NASB, AV, and RSV translated it. Specifically, he had delivered His people from a much larger and more powerful enemy invasion, assuming the Judahites’ repentance. The animals too could stop fearing because God’s... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:1-32

Repentance followed by RestorationJoel 2:1-17 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come (Joel 2:1-3). The advance of the locusts into the city is described under the figure of an invading army (Joel 2:4-11). A message to the penitent is given from Jehovah (Joel 2:12-14), and a call is issued for a fast of supplication (Joel 2:15-17). Then follow the announcements that Jehovah has had pity on His people, and that He will remove the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Joel 2:21

(21) Fear not, O land . . .—The sentence of the reversal of judgment has gone forth, and all nature—animate and inanimate, rational and irrational—which had been included in the curse is summoned to rejoice in the blessing vouchsafed by the Lord. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Joel 2:1-32

Conversion (Ash Wednesday) Joel 2:12 A great national calamity, either impending or just passed, was the occasion of the prophecy of Joel. It is traceable to national sin, and its remedy is national repentance. The words of our text bring before us a matter which is peculiarly fit for Ash Wednesday consideration the doctrine of Conversion; for conversion is the first step in that life of penitence to which Lent calls us. But conversion is a subject about which there is much misunderstanding. ... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joel 2:18-32

PROSPERITY AND THE SPIRITJoel 2:18-32"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 renders them in the future tense, as the continuation of the prophet’s discourse, which had threatened the Day of the Lord, urged the people to penitence, and now promises that their penitence shall be followed by the Lord’s mercy. But such a rendering forces the grammar; and the Revised English Version... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joel 2:19-27

1. THE RETURN OF PROSPERITYJoel 2:19-27"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 reproach among the heathen. And the Northern Foe: will I remove far from you; And I will push him into a land barren and waste, His van to the eastern sea and his rear to the western, Till the stench of him rises, Because he hath done greatly."Locusts disappear with the same suddenness as they arrive.... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Joel 2:1-32

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 ) 2. The invading army from the north (Joel 2:3-11 ) 3. The repentance of the people and cry for help (Joel 2:12-17 ) 4. “Then.” The great change (Joel 2:18 ) 5. Promises of restoration, and the early and latter rain (Joel 2:19-27 ) 6. The outpouring of the Spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28-31 ) 7. Deliverance in Mount Zion and Jerusalem (Joel... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Joel 2:1-32

JOEL GENERAL OVE RV IEW OF THE BOOK Joel was probably the earliest of the prophets whose writings have descended to us. His personal history is unknown further than the bare statement (1:1). His field of labor was presumably Judah rather than Israel, the southern rather than the northern kingdom, because of allusions to the center of public worship which was at Jerusalem (1:9, 13-14; 2:15), and because of non-allusions to Israel distinctively. Such places as 2:27, and 3:16 are thought to... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Joel 2:1-32

Night and Day In Zion Joel 2:0 The whole chapter is one of the most picturesque description to be found in all the record even of ancient prophecy. It is full of judgment, and it is full of gospel. The whole morning is darkened with locusts, yet at eventide there is light. Merely as an exercise in the pictorial art, were it nothing more, this chapter ought to stand amongst the masterpieces of literature. No man who had any regard to his own literary reputation could have written this could... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joel 2:21-27

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. And let the Reader never overlook the cause: namely, the Lord's jealousy for his land, his love to his people. And all this with an eye to Christ, the first and only pre-disposing cause in the salvation of Zion. read more

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