Joel 2:24

The ground where you thresh the grain will be covered with grain, and your vats where you store grape juice and olive oil will be full.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

In Context

23You people of Jerusalem, rejoice about what Yahweh, your God, will be doing for you. He will send abundant rain at the ◄right time/time when it is needed►— ◄in the spring/early in the year► and ◄in the autumn/late in the year► like he did previously.

25Yahweh said, “I will repay you for everything that was destroyed by those great swarms of locusts that I sent to attack you.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:10When you are still eating food from the harvest from the previous year, it will be necessary for you to throw away some of it to make space for the new harvest.

Ezekiel 36:8But I say to you mountains in Israel that huge crops of fruit will grow on your trees for my Israeli people, because they will soon return home from Babylonia.

Joel 3:18At that time, there will be vineyards covering [MTY] the hills, and your cattle and goats on those hills will produce plenty of milk. The streams in Judah will never dry up. And a stream will flow from my temple into the Acacia Valley northeast of the Dead Sea.

Malachi 3:10Now bring all the tithes to the storage rooms in the temple, in order that there will be enough food for the people who serve me there. If you do that, I, the Commander of the armies of angels, promise that I will open the windows of heaven, and pour out from them blessings on you. If you bring your tithes to the temple, the blessings will be very great, with the result that you will not have enough space to store all of them. So test me to see if I am telling the truth.

Matthew Henry on Joel 2:19-28

Promise of Mercy. ( b. c. 720.) 18 Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19 Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and… Read the whole commentary →

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