Joel 1:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. ”

Joel 1:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off - The meat offering and drink offering were part of every sacrifice. If the materials for these, the grain and wine, ceased, through locusts or...
Joel 1:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is (f) cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. (f) The signs of God's wrath appeared in his temple, in so much that God...
Joel 1:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Distress Caused by the Plague. Joel 1:5-7 . The wine-bibbers no censure is implied; they are mentioned first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and the tears they are...
Joel 1:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

meat offering = the meal or gift offering. Hebrew. minchah. See App-43. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 2 ). App-92. Compare Joel 2:14 . drink offering . Ref to Pentateuch ( Exodus 29:40 ;...
Joel 1:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here, in other words, the Prophet paints the calamity; for, as it has been said, we see how great is the slowness of men to discern God’s judgments; and the Jews, we know, were not more attenti...
Joel 1:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off - The crops and the vines...
Joel 1:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of...
Joel 1:9 - 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 1:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering — i.e., all the outward and visible signs of communion with God are cut off. The means are lost through this visitation. There is a total cessation of “th...
Joel 1:9 - 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 1:9 - 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 1:9 - 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 1:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Under the figure of a swarm of insects destroying the fruits of the earth, is represented the judgment of the Lord upon a guilty land. It is blessed to observe, how the Lord pleads with his people by...
Joel 1:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord ,.... The meat offering was made of fine flour, oil, and frankincense; and the drink offering was of wine; and, because...
Joel 1:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. Ver. 9. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off ] Periit liba...
Joel 1:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The meat-offering and the drink-offering These offerings always accompanied the daily sacrifice: see Numbers 28:4 ; Numbers 28:7 . The word here and elsewhere translated meat-offering , properly...
Joel 1:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 720. 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for...
Joel 1:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The meat-offering; which by Divine appointment was to be of fine flour, oil, and frankincense, as Leviticus 2:1 , &c.; vi. 14, &c. This meat-offering was necessary to every sacrifice off...
Joel 1:9 - 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 1:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Joel 1:8 . A virgin ] The impersonated nation to lament with the sorrow and despair of a young girl, whose hopes have been blighted, and her beloved taken away by a stroke ( Ez...
Joel 1:9 - 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 1:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep. The insensibility and misery of the drunkard The prophet now endeavours to awaken certain characters in the nation to an earnest sense of the woe that has overtak...
Joel 1:9 - 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 1:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Description of the Calamity
Joel 1:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 13:10 ; Exodus 28:1 ; Hosea 9:4 ; Isaiah 61:6 ; Joel 1:13 ; Joel 1:16 ; Joel 2:14 ; Joel 2:17 ; Lamentations 1:16 ; Lamentations 1:4
Joel 1:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The drink — offering — By the destruction of the vines, all wine (out of which they ought to offer the drink — offering) failed.

Joel 1:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joel 1:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Joel 1:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joel 1:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joel 1:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 1:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joel 1:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joel 1:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joel 1:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joel 1:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joel 1:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joel 1:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joel 1:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joel 1:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joel 1:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joel 1:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel 1:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes