Joel 1:2

Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

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In The King James Version

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

In Context

1The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

3Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

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Cross References

Job 8:8Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

Job 15:10With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

Psalms 49:1Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

Isaiah 34:1Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.

Jeremiah 30:7Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.

Hosea 4:1Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no 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 →

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