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Joel 1:2 KJV
Joel · chapter 1 · verse 2
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?Joel 1:2 · King James Version
Joel 1:2 in context
1The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
2Hear 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?
3Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
4That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- inhabitantsyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- Hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- landʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
- earʼâzanto broaden out the earH238 →
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It is a foolish fancy which some of the Jews have, that this Joel the prophet was the same with that Joel who was the son of Samuel (Sa1 8:2); yet one of their rabbin very gravely undertakes to show why Samuel is here called Pethuel. This Joel was long after that.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7