The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
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Gill's Exposition
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,.... Not by eclipses, as Aben Ezra; but by the clouds of smoke arising from the burning of towns and cities, which would be so great as…
Barnes' Notes
Before the great and terrible Day of the Lord come - o: “The days of our life are our days wherein we do what we please; that will be the “Day of the Lord,” when He, our Judge, shall require the…
The promises of corn, and wine, and oil, in the foregoing verses, would be very acceptable to a wasted country; but here we are taught that we must not rest in those things. God has reserved some…
Cambridge Bible
Celestial portents. The imagery may be suggested partly by eclipses (cf. on Amo 8:9), partly by unusual obscurations of sun or moon through atmospheric disturbances, for instance, sand-storms,…
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