Joel 1:2

Hear this, you elders,And listen, all you inhabitants of the land.Has this ever happened in your days,or in the days of your fathers?

New Heart English Bible

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

1The Word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

3Tell your children about it,and have your children tell their children,and their children, another generation.

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Cross References

Job 8:8"Please inquire of past generations.Find out about the learning of their fathers.

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

Psalms 49:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.Hear this, all you peoples.Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

Isaiah 34:1Come near, you nations, to hear!Listen, you peoples.Let the earth and all it contains hear;the world, and everything that comes from it.

Jeremiah 30:7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel;for the Lord has a charge against the inhabitants of the land:"Indeed there is no truth,nor goodness,nor knowledge of God in the land.

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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