The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land!

The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? Tell …

The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:An Invasion of Locusts # [Hos. 5:1] Hear this, #ver. 14 you elders;give ear, #ver. 14 all inhabitants of the land! # [ch. 2:2] H

1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts. 2 Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

Joel. Introduction. Little is known about the prophet Joel, although his concern for Judah and Jerusalem suggests that he ministered in Judah. Joel told of a locust plague that had struck Israel and which, he said, foreshadowed the “day of the Lord.”

from the house of our God? because the grain has dried up. How the beasts groan! To you, O L ORD, I call. all the trees of the field. the pastures of the wilderness. See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks). (1:8) Or young woman. (1:11) The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike. (1:15)

From the desolations about to come upon the land of Judah, by the ravages of locusts and other insects, the prophet Joel exhorts the Jews to repentance, fasting, and prayer. He notices the blessings of the gospel, with the final glorious state of the church.

1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts. 2 a Hear this, b you elders; give ear, b all inhabitants of the land! c Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? 3 d Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

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The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days ...