Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and wonderful (LXX/NT) day of LORD comes.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
30And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Cross References
Isaiah 34:4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. And all their host shall fade away as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
Joel 3:1For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Zephaniah 1:14The great day of LORD is near. It is near and hastens greatly, the voice of the day of LORD. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
Malachi 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes.
Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour darkness developed over all the land until the ninth hour.
Luke 21:25And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, roaring of sea and of tossing,
Matthew Henry on Joel 2:29-32
Promise of Mercy. ( b. c. 720.) 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the… Read the whole commentary →