Joel 1:2

Hear this, you elders, 1 and listen, all you inhabitants of the land. 1 Has anything like this happened in your days 1 or in the days of your ancestors? 1

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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

1This is the word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel. 1

3Tell your children about it, 1 and let your children tell their children, 1 and their children the next generation. 1

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Cross References

Job 8:8Please ask the former generations, 1 and give your attention to what our ancestors learned. 1

Job 15:10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men 1 who are much older than your father. 1

Psalms 49:1Hear this, all you peoples; 1 give ear, all you inhabitants of the world, 1

Isaiah 34:1Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you people! 1 The earth and all that fills it must listen, the world, and all things that come from it. 1

Jeremiah 30:7Woe! For that day will be great, with none like it. 1 It will be a time of anxiety for Jacob, but he will be rescued from it. 1

Hosea 4:1Hear the word of Yahweh, you people of Israel. 1 Yahweh has a lawsuit against the inhabitants of the land, 1 because there is no truthfulness or covenantal faithfulness, no knowledge of God in the land. 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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