Joel 2:15

Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

In Context

14May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

16Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:9And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;

2 Kings 10:20And Jehu said, Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal. So a public statement was made.

Jeremiah 36:9Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.

Joel 2:1Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

Matthew Henry on Joel 2:13-18

Exhortation to Repentance. ( b. c. 720.) 12 Therefore also now, saith the Lord , turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? 15 Blow the… Read the whole commentary →

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