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Joel 1:4

Joel 1:4
That 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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

That which the palmer worm hath left hath the locust eaten,.... These, with the two following, are four kinds of, locusts as Jarchi observes; though it is difficult to fix the particular species…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

That which the palmerworm hath left, hath the locust eaten - The creatures here spoken of are different kinds of locusts, so named from their number or voracity. We, who are free from this scourge of…

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

The calamity to which the prophet has thus emphatically directed his hearers" attention: a visitation of locusts, repeated for more years than one (Joe 2:25), and of unexampled severity; what had…