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Joel 1:1

The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Joel;   Nation;   Pethuel;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   Joel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Leaders;   Prophets;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Word;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pethuel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joel, Book of;   Pethuel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gods;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Joel ;   Pethuel ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Famine;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Scripture;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pethu'el;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joel (1);   Pethuel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Zephaniah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel:
Hebrew Names Version
The Word of the LORD that came to Yo'el, the son of Petu'el.
King James Version
The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
English Standard Version
The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
New American Standard Bible
The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
New Century Version
The Lord spoke his word to Joel son of Pethuel:
Amplified Bible
The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The worde of the Lorde that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
Legacy Standard Bible
The word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
Berean Standard Bible
This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:
Contemporary English Version
I am Joel the son of Pethuel. And this is the message the Lord gave to me.
Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai that came to Yo'el the son of P'tu'el:
Darby Translation
The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Easy-to-Read Version
Joel son of Pethuel received this message from the Lord :
George Lamsa Translation
THE word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Bethuel:
Good News Translation
This is the Lord 's message to Joel son of Pethuel.
Lexham English Bible
The word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
Literal Translation
The Word of Jehovah that was to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
American Standard Version
The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
King James Version (1611)
The word of the Lord that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The worde of the Lorde that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.
English Revised Version
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
World English Bible
The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The word of the Lord is this, that was maad to Joel, the sone of Phatuel.
Update Bible Version
The word of Yahweh that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Webster's Bible Translation
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
New English Translation
This is the Lord 's message that was given to Joel the son of Pethuel:
New King James Version
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
New Living Translation
The Lord gave this message to Joel son of Pethuel.
New Life Bible
This is the word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The word of Yahweh, which came unto Joel, son of Pethuel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The word of the Lord, that came to Joel, the son of Phatuel.
Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethu'el:
Young's Literal Translation
A word of Jehovah that hath been unto Joel, son of Pethuel:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the worde of the LORDE, that came vnto Ioel the sonne of Phatuel:
THE MESSAGE
God 's Message to Joel son of Pethuel: Attention, elder statesmen! Listen closely, everyone, whoever and wherever you are! Have you ever heard of anything like this? Has anything like this ever happened before—ever? Make sure you tell your children, and your children tell their children, And their children their children. Don't let this message die out.

Contextual Overview

1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. 2 Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers? 3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation. 4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly. 5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths. 6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion. 7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

word: Jeremiah 1:2, Ezekiel 1:3, Hosea 1:1, 2 Peter 1:21

to: Acts 2:16

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
Genesis 1:5
Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
Genesis 1:17
And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;
Genesis 1:19
And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
Genesis 1:22
And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.
Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Who this Pethuel was is not known; Jarchi takes him to be the same with Samuel the prophet, who had a son of this name, 1 Samuel 8:2; and gives this reason for his being called Pethuel, because in his prayer he persuaded God; but the long span of time will by no means admit of this, nor the character of Samuel's son agree with Joel; and therefore is rightly denied by Aben Ezra, who observes, however, that this man was an honourable man, and therefore his name is mentioned; and gives this as a rule, that whenever any prophet mentions the name of his father, he was honourable. Perhaps, it is here observed, to distinguish him from another of the same name; and there was one of this name, Joel, a high priest in the reigns of Uzziah and Jotham, according to Seder Olam Zuta i and Abarbinel k; in whose time Joel is by some thought to prophesy.

i Fol. 104. k In Meyer. Anotat. in ib. p, 626.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The word of the Lord that came to Joel - Joel, like Hosea, mentions the name of his father only, and then is silent about his extraction, his tribe, his family. He leaves even the time when he lived, to be guessed at. He would be known only, as the instrument of God. “The word of the Lord came to” him (see the note at Hosea 1:1), and he willed simply to be the voice which uttered it. He was “content to live under the eyes of God, and, as to people, to be known only in what concerned their salvation.” But this he declares absolutely, that the Word of God came to him; in order that we may give faith to his prophecy, being well assured that what he predicted, would come to pass. So the Saviour Himself says, ““My words shall not pass away” Matthew 24:35. For truth admits of nothing false, and what God saith, will certainly be. For “He confirmeth the word of His servant, and performeth the counsel of His messengers” Isaiah 44:26. The prophet claimeth belief then, as speaking not out of his own heart, but out of the mouth of the Lord speaking in the Spirit.” Joel signifies, “The Lord is God.” It owns that God who had revealed Himself, is alone the God. The prophet’s name itself, embodied the truth, which, after the miraculous answer to Elijah’s prayer, all the people confessed, “The Lord He is the God, The Lord He is the God.” Pethuel signifies, “persuaded of God.” The addition of his father’s name distinguished the prophet from others of that name, as the son of Samuel, of king Uzziah, and others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JOEL

Chronological Notes relative to the commencement of Joel's

prophesying, upon the supposition that this event took place

about six hundred and ninety years before the commencement of

the Christian era.

-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3314.

-Year of the Julian Period, 4024.

-Year since the Flood, 1658.

-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 322.

-Year since the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 285.

-Year since the extinction of the kingdom of Israel by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 31.

-Third year of the twenty-second Olympiad.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to the Varronian computation, 64.

-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 690.

-Cycle of the Sun, 20.

-Cycle of the Moon, 15.

-Third year of Eryxias, the last decennial archon of the Athenians.

-First year of Anaxidamus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae.

-Thirty-fifth year of Eurycrates I., king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae.

-Eleventh year of Deioces, the first king of the Medes.

-Fortieth year of Perdiccas I., king of Macedon.

-Twenty-ninth year of Gyges, king of Lydia.

-Ninth year of Manasseh, king of Judah.

CHAPTER I

This and the beginning of the next chapter contain a double

prophecy, applicable in its primary sense to a plague of

locusts which was to devour the land, and to be accompanied

with a severe drought and famine; and in its secondary sense

it denotes the Chaldean invasion. Both senses must be admitted:

for some of the expressions will apply only to the dearth by

insects; others to the desolation by war. The contexture of

both is beautiful and well conducted. In this chapter the

distress of every order of people is strongly painted; and not

only does the face of nature languish when the God of nature

is displeased, 1-19;

but the very beasts of the field, by a bold figure, are

represented as supplicating God in their distress, and

reproaching the stupidity of man, 20.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Joel 1:1. The word of the Lord that came to Joel — See the introduction for some account of this prophet, whose history is very obscure. Bishop Newcome thinks that he prophesied while the kingdom of Judah subsisted, and refers to Joel 2:1; Joel 2:15, (see also Joel 1:14, and the note there,) but not long before its subversion as his words, Joel 3:1, seem to imply that its captivity was approaching. See 2 Kings 21:10-15. He therefore favours the conjecture of Drusius, that this prophet lived under Manasseh, and before his conversion, 2 Chronicles 33:13; that is, some time from before Christ 697 to (suppose) 660.


 
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