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Joel 1:2

Joel 1:2
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?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Hear this, ye old men,.... What the prophet was about to relate, concerning the consumption of the fruits of the earth, by various sorts of creatures, and by a drought; and these are called upon to…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Hear this, ye old men - By reason of their age they had known and heard much; they had heard from their fathers, and their father’s fathers, much which they had not known themselves. Among the people…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joel 1:1-7

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Joel 1:2-20

Part I. Chap. Joe 1:2 to Joe 2:17

Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joe 2:1-11), but which may yet be averted by the nation's…