Joel 2:16

Gather the people, sanctify an assembly, || Assemble the aged, || Gather infants and sucklings of the breasts, || Let a bridegroom go out from his inner chamber, || And a bride out of her closet.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

In Context

15Blow a horn in Zion, || Sanctify a fast—proclaim a restraint.

17Let the priests weep between the porch and the altar, servants of YHWH, || And let them say: “Have pity, O YHWH, on Your people, || And do not give Your inheritance to reproach, || To the ruling over them of nations, || Why do they say among peoples, Where [is] their God?”

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Cross References

Exodus 19:15and he says to the people, “Be prepared for the third day, do not come near to a woman.”

Deuteronomy 29:10You are standing today, all of you, before your God YHWH: your heads, your tribes, your elderly, and your authorities, every man of Israel,

Joshua 8:35there has not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua has not proclaimed before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the infants, and the sojourner who is going in their midst.

2 Chronicles 20:13And all Judah is standing before YHWH, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.

2 Chronicles 29:23and they bring the male goats of the sin-offering near before the king and the assembly, and they lay their hands on them;

2 Chronicles 30:19who has prepared his heart to seek God—YHWH, God of his fathers—yet not according to the cleansing of the holy place”;

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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