Joel 1:1-19 BSB

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:5-12

Joel 1:5-2 Kings : . The Distress Caused by the Plague. Joel 1:5-Judges : . The wine-bibbers— no censure is implied; they are mentioned first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and the tears they are bidden to shed— are summoned to arouse from their drunken sleep and bemoan the devastation of the vineyards. The many-mouthed host of invaders (for nation” cf. Proverbs 30:25 f.) has wrought such destruction that it is likened to a ravening lion. Vine and fig-tree are... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:8-12

Joel 1:8-2 Kings : . The land is bidden to mourn as bitterly as a maiden mourning her betrothed, dead ere the marriage day. For— most terrible consequence of the famine caused by the locusts— no corn, wine, or oil can be had for the daily sacrifice, which is interrupted. Such a suspension, which seemed to snap the link between Yahweh and His people, occurred during the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans, and was regarded as an appalling omen. The land and its tillers alike bewail (read mg.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:13-20

Joel 1:13-Proverbs : . A Call for a Fast and Solemn Intercession.— The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual a fast, and summon a solemn gathering of the community. The awful plight of the land suggests the thought that the locusts are but harbingers of the dreaded Day of Yahweh ( Amos 5:18-Proverbs :). Nothing less can be portended when the joyous sacrifices are interrupted by... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:1

Joel; supposed to be of the posterity of Reuben, therefore could not be (as the Jews suppose) Samuel's son, nor will his time fit to 1 Chronicles 5:4,1 Chronicles 5:8; but of what tribe soever, we know he came from God, and with his authority, and is so cited by the apostle, Acts 2:16. The son of Pethuel: more of this man I know not, and it is possible he might be, as the Jews suppose, very eminent, because he is named; however, it is an honour to be reported a prophet's father. The time of his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:2

Hear this: he is about to report a very wonderful occurrence, and desires all to consider it, mark it well, and tell me what you know. Ye old men; the oldest among you, who can remember things done in your days when you were young, some scores of years past. Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: it is an appeal to all that may possibly know more than others, and remember better than others can. Hath this been in your days? did you personally ever know the like? Or even in the days of your... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:3

Declare it very particularly, or record it, write it as in a book, that your children may know it, and the memory of it may be perpetuated; for as it was a very wonderful and unusual thing, so it was for to mind us of the cause of it, and what it taught, or should have taught, them and us. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:4

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 grievous famine for four years together, say the Jewish interpreters, though there is no cogent reason in what they mention for proof hereof. These insects might in the same year succeed each other, the one, as is usual, might come sooner, the rest successively, each in its season, and so spoil the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:5

Awake: great drinkers of intoxicating liquors are apt to sleep and be secure, the prophet doth therefore here call to them, as to sleepers, and by one apt word expresseth a double duty, vigilance of mind as well as of the body; so may this be paralleled with Romans 13:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1 Peter 5:8, or Ephesians 5:14. Ye drunkards; riotous livers, such as Proverbs 23:30-32; Isaiah 5:11,Isaiah 5:12, whose life is nothing but a continued feasting with choicest wines, and in excess, such as... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:6

This verse countenanceth their conjecture who take the locusts and vermin to be emblematical in part as well as literal; for it seems not very suitable to call their teeth teeth of a lion. For a nation; an innumerable multitude of locusts and caterpillars, called a nation here, as Solomon calls the conies and the ants, Proverbs 30:25,Proverbs 30:26. A prognostic of a very numerous and mighty nation, that ere long will invade Judah. Is come up, or suddenly will come, upon my land; upon Canaan,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:7

He, that nation of locusts, Joel 1:6, both literally and mystically understood, hath laid my vine waste; made it a desolation, i.e. most desolate, which is more particularly declared in what followeth. And barked my fig tree; peeled off the bark. which is certain destruction to the tree. Made it clean bare; eat off all the rind and green bark, and left the body of both vine and fig tree bare and stripped. And cast it away; as vermin cast out of their mouth the chewings of what they spoil, so... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:5-12

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:8-12

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:13-20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joel 1:7

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