Joel 1:2

Hear this, ye zekenim, 1 and give ear, all ye yoshvei ha'aretz (inhabitants of the land). 1 Hath anything like this been in your days, 1 or even in the days of your avot (fathers)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Devar Hashem that came to Yoel Ben Petuel: 1

3Tell ye your banim (children) of it, 1 and let your banim tell their banim, 1 and their banim to the next generation. 1

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Cross References

Job 8:8For inquire, now, of the dor rishon (former age), 1 and consider the research of their avot; 1

Job 15:10Both the grayheaded and very aged men are among us, 1 much elder than avicha. 1

Psalms 49:1(For the one directing. A Mizmor for the Bnei Korach) 1

Isaiah 34:1Come near, ye Goyim, to hear; 1 and pay heed, ye peoples; 1 let ha'aretz hear, and all that is therein; 1 the tevel (world), and all things that come forth of it. 1

Jeremiah 30:7Alas! For gadol hayom, 1 so that none is like it; 1 it is even the Et (Time) of Tzarah l'Ya'akov (Jacobʼs Trouble), 1 but he shall be saved out of it.

Hosea 4:1Hear the Devar Hashem, ye Bnei Yisroel: 1 for Hashem hath a controversy with the yoshvei ha'aretz, 1 because there is no emes, nor chesed, 1 nor da'as Elohim in ha'aretz. + 4:1 See 11:7-9; 1K 1:18-19 1

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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