Joel 1:2
You leaders of Israel, and everyone else who lives in this country, listen to this message! Nothing [RHQ] like this has ever happened during the time that we have lived or the time when our ancestors lived.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
1I am Joel, the son of Pethuel. This is a message that Yahweh gave to me.
Cross References
Job 8:8“I request you to think about what happened long ago and consider what our ancestors found out.
Job 15:10My friends and I are also wise; we acquired wisdom from old gray-haired people, from people who were born before your father was born.
Psalms 49:1You people of all ethnic groups, listen! You people all over the world,
Isaiah 34:1You people of all nations, come near and listen and pay careful attention. I want the world and everything that is in it to hear what I say.
Jeremiah 30:7Terrible things will soon happen; that will be a terrible day! There has never been such a time. It will be a time when my Israeli people will experience great trouble, but finally they will be saved from their sufferings.”
Hosea 4:1You Israeli people, listen to this message from Yahweh! He is accusing you people who live in this country, saying “The people are not faithfully doing what pleases me, they are not kind to others, and they do not even know me!
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 →