Joel 1:2
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1The word of LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
3Tell ye your sons of it, and [let] your sons [tell] their sons, and their sons another generation.
Cross References
Job 8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
Job 15:10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.
Psalms 49:1Hear this, all ye peoples. Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
Isaiah 34:1Come near, ye nations, to hear. And hearken, ye peoples. Let the earth hear, and the fullness thereof, the world, and all things that come forth from it.
Jeremiah 30:7Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Hosea 4:1Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8
Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →