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Text -- Joel 1:1-12 (NET)
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Introduction
1:1 This is the Lord’s message that was given to Joel the son of Pethuel :
A Locust Plague Foreshadows the Day of the Lord
1:2 Listen to this , you elders ; pay attention , all inhabitants of the land . Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors ?
1:3 Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children , and their children the following generation .
1:4 What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed , what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed , and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed !
1:5 Wake up , you drunkards , and weep ! Wail , all you wine drinkers , because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.
1:6 For a nation has invaded our land . There are so many of them they are too numerous to count . Their teeth are like those of a lion ; they tear apart their prey like a lioness .
1:7 They have destroyed our vines ; they have turned our fig trees into mere splinters . They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown them aside ; the twigs are stripped bare .
A Call to Lament
1:8 Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth , lamenting the death of her husband-to-be .
1:9 No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the Lord anymore. So the priests , those who serve the Lord , are in mourning .
1:10 The crops of the fields have been destroyed . The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished . The fresh wine has dried up ; the olive oil languishes .
1:11 Be distressed , farmers ; wail , vinedressers , over the wheat and the barley . For the harvest of the field has perished .
1:12 The vine has dried up ; the fig tree languishes – the pomegranate , date , and apple as well . In fact, all the trees of the field have dried up . Indeed , the joy of the people has dried up !
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Afflictions and Adversities |
Joel |
Nation |
Locust |
Caterpillar |
Pethuel |
PALESTINE, 1 |
Palmer-worm |
POMEGRANATE |
Agriculture |
Apple |
JOEL (2) |
Wine |
Cankerworm |
VIRGIN, VIRGINITY |
Drink-offering |
PALMERWORM |
MINISTER |
Animals |
WINE; WINE PRESS |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Joe 1:1; Joe 1:1; Joe 1:1; Joe 1:1; Joe 1:2; Joe 1:2; Joe 1:2; Joe 1:2; Joe 1:2; Joe 1:3; Joe 1:3; Joe 1:4; Joe 1:4; Joe 1:4; Joe 1:5; Joe 1:5; Joe 1:5; Joe 1:5; Joe 1:5; Joe 1:6; Joe 1:6; Joe 1:6; Joe 1:6; Joe 1:6; Joe 1:6; Joe 1:7; Joe 1:7; Joe 1:7; Joe 1:7; Joe 1:7; Joe 1:7; Joe 1:7; Joe 1:7; Joe 1:8; Joe 1:8; Joe 1:8; Joe 1:8; Joe 1:9; Joe 1:9; Joe 1:10; Joe 1:10; Joe 1:11; Joe 1:12; Joe 1:12; Joe 1:12
NET Notes: Joe 1:1 The name Joel means in Hebrew “the Lord is God.” There are a dozen or so individuals with this name in the OT.
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NET Notes: Joe 1:3 The circumstances that precipitated the book of Joel surrounded a locust invasion in Palestine that was of unprecedented proportions. The locusts had ...
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NET Notes: Joe 1:4 Four different words for “locust” are used in this verse. Whether these words represent different life-stages of the locusts, or whether v...
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NET Notes: Joe 1:5 Heb “your mouth.” This is a synecdoche of part (the mouth) for whole (the person).
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NET Notes: Joe 1:6 Heb “its incisors are those of a lioness.” The sharp, cutting teeth are metonymical for the action of tearing apart and eating prey. The l...
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NET Notes: Joe 1:7 Once choice leafy vegetation is no longer available to them, locusts have been known to consume the bark of small tree limbs, leaving them in an expos...
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NET Notes: Joe 1:8 Heb “the husband of her youth.” The woman described here may already be married, so the reference is to the death of a husband rather than...
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