Joel 1:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The seedc is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. ”

Joel 1:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The seed is rotten under the clods - Not only was all to be cut off for the present, but, with it, all hope for the future. The scattered seed, as it lay, each under its clod known to God, was dr...
Joel 1:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A Call for a Fast and Solemn Intercession. The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritu...
Joel 1:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

The seed, &c. Note the Figure of speech Anabasis (App-6) in this verse.
Joel 1:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He shows the cause of the evil, Rotted have the grains in the very furrows. For they call seeds פרדות peredut from the act of scattering. He then calls grains by this name, because they...
Joel 1:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. The seed is rotten under their clods - When the sprout was cut off as low as...
Joel 1:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The seed is rotten, &c.— Rotted. Whoever considers the authentic accounts given of the depredations of locusts in the year 1748 in our own country, wherein they were found burrowing under gro...
Joel 1:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. The seed is rotten - "is dried up," 'vanishes away,' from an Arabic r...
Joel 1:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Coming of the Locusts a Harbinger of the Day of the Lord After the title ( Joel 1:1 ), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts ( Joel 1:2-4 ), an...
Joel 1:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The corn is withered. — The results of the terrible drought, coincident with the ravages of the locusts, are now described. The ancient versions present difficulty and variety in the exact renderin...
Joel 1:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they...
Joel 1:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Summons to Penitence Joel 1:1-20 ; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. Th...
Joel 1:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible l...
Joel 1:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The preceding verses having described the ruin of all flesh by reason of sin, here comes the judgment. The Prophet unable to enter into the particulars of the dreadful day of account, only cries out...
Joel 1:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The seed is rotten under their clods ,.... Or "grains" z of wheat or barley, which had been sown, and, for want of rain, putrefied and wasted away under the clods of earth, through the great drought...
Joel 1:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. Ver. 17. The seed is rotten under their clods ] It lieth buried or drowned...
Joel 1:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Alas for the day! Wo to us! The time in which God will inflict on us the punishments we have long deserved is now near; and if they be not averted by our repentance, they will fall upon us in an ir...
Joel 1:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment; A Proclamation for a Fast. B. C. 720. 14 Sanctify ye a fast,...
Joel 1:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The seed; called so from the seedsman's scattering it abroad when he soweth it, and in this place only so used, for aught I can observe, and yet this use of it here is justified by all the followin...
Joel 1:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Description of the Plague And Its Consequences ( Joel 1:6-18 ). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences...
Joel 1:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Joel 1:16 .] Food cut off, the joy of festivals and sacrifices banished. Joel 1:17 . Seed ] decayed under the clods. Garners ] Storehouses went to ruin and prospects of f...
Joel 1:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:1 . Joel, the son of Pethuel. Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presume...
Joel 1:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel . The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the...
Joel 1:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prescribing Fasting and Penitence
Joel 1:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 23:16
Joel 1:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Laid desolate — Run to ruin because the owners discouraged with the barrenness of the seasons, would not repair them.

Joel 1:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joel 1:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joel 1:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joel 1:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 1:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joel 1:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joel 1:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joel 1:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joel 1:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joel 1:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joel 1:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joel 1:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joel 1:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joel 1:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel 1:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes