Joel 2:15

Blow the trumpet in Zion,.... For the calling of the people together to religious duties, which was one use of the silver trumpets made for and blows by the priests, Num 10:2;

sanctify a fast, call…

Before, he had, in these same words Joe 2:1; Joe 1:14, called to repentance, because the Day of the Lord was coming, was near, “a day of darkness,” etc. Now , because God is “gracious and merciful,…

We have here an earnest exhortation to repentance, inferred from that desolating judgment described and threatened in the foregoing verses: Therefore now turn you to the Lord. 1. "Thus you must answer…

With the view of making the preceding exhortation (Joe 2:2 f.) more practically effective, the prophet here repeats more emphatically the command of Joe 1:14: he bids all ranks and classes assemble in…