Joel 2:28
“Some time later, I will give my Spirit to many [HYP] people. Your sons and daughters will proclaim messages that come directly from me. Your old men will have dreams that come from me, and your young men will have visions that come from me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
29At that time, I will give my Spirit even to servants, both men and women.
Cross References
Genesis 37:5One night Joseph had a dream. He told his brothers about the dream.
1 Samuel 19:21When Saul heard about that, he sent messengers a third time, but they also started to speak ecstatically.
Isaiah 32:15It will be like that until God pours his Spirit out on us from heaven. When that happens, the deserts will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fertile fields.
Isaiah 44:3I will pour water on your dry land and cause streams to flow. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants and greatly bless them.
Isaiah 54:13I will be the one who will teach you people and cause things to go well with you.
Ezekiel 39:29I will no longer turn away from them; I will pour out my Spirit on the Israeli people. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.”
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 →