Joel 2:14

Who knows? Will he perhaps turn and have compassion, 1 and leave a blessing behind him, 1 a grain offering and a drink offering for Yahweh your God? 1

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In The King James Version

Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

In Context

13Tear your heart and not only your garments, 1 and return to Yahweh your God. 1 For he is gracious and merciful, 1 slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness, 1 and he would like to turn from inflicting punishment. 1

15Blow the trumpet in Zion, 1 call for a holy fast, 1 and call a holy assembly. 1

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Cross References

Joshua 14:12Now therefore give me this hill country, which Yahweh promised me on that day. For you heard on that day that the Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me and that I will drive them out, just as Yahweh said.”

2 Samuel 12:22David answered, “While the child was still alive I fasted and wept. I said, 'Who knows whether or not Yahweh will be gracious to me, that the child may live?'

2 Kings 19:4It may be that Yahweh your God will hear all the words of the chief commander, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Now lift up your prayer for the remnant that is still here.'”

Jeremiah 26:3It may be that they will listen, that each man will turn from his wicked ways, so I will relent concerning the disaster that I am planning to bring on them because of the wickedness of their practices.

Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! 1 Wail, you servants of the altar. 1 Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. 1 For the grain offering and the drink offering have been withheld from the house of your God. 1

Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good, 1 establish justice in the city gate. 1 Perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious 1 to the remnant of Joseph. 1

Matthew Henry on Joel 2:13-18

Exhortation to Repentance. ( b. c. 720.) 12 Therefore also now, saith the Lord , turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? 15 Blow the… Read the whole commentary →

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