Joel 1:2
Hear these words, ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. + 1:2 Gr. if.Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
1The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.
Cross References
Job 8:8For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers:
Job 15:10Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.
Psalms 49:1A Psalm + 49:1 Or, of.for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
Isaiah 34:1Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.
Jeremiah 30:7for by myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, that thou shalt be in the midst of her an impassable land, and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be desert for ever.
Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, 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 →