Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
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Gill's Exposition
Gather the people,.... The common people, all the inhabitants of the land, Joe 1:14; summon them to meet together in the temple, in order to humble themselves before God for their sins, and implore…
Barnes' Notes
Sanctify the congregation - o: “Do what in you lies, by monishing, exhorting, threatening, giving the example of a holy life, that the whole people present itself holy before its God” , “lest your…
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…
Cambridge Bible
An expansion of the injunctions contained in the rest of Joe 1:14 a.
sanctify an assembly] i.e. hold a sacred religious meeting.
gather the elders the old men (R.V. marg.). All are to take part in the…
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