Joel 2:3

A fire, &c. Compare Joel 1:19; Joel 1:20.

them. The northern army (Joel 2:11) symbolized by the locusts of Joel 1:4.

the garden of Eden. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:13; Genesis 2:10). App-92. Compare Isaiah 51:3.Ezekiel 36:35.

a desolate wilderness. Compare Joel 3:19; Psalms 107:34.

Related Commentaries of Joel 2:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A fire devoureth before them ... - Travelers, of different nations and characters, and in different lands, some unacquainted with the Bible words...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of (d) Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilder...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Let the Alarm be Sounded, for the Locusts are Precursors of the Day of Yahweh. Speaking in Yahweh's name the prophet bids the priests sound the ala...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Before them, he says, the fire will devour, and after them the flame will burn. He means that the vengeance of God would be such as would c...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderne...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Repentance followed by Restoration Joel 2:1-17 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah ha...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Before them... behind them. — As with the locusts, so with the invading hosts of enemies: the country is found a paradise, and left a desert.
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 lo...
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 un...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus dealt with the actual visitation and its terrible devastation, and having called the people into the place of humiliation, the prophet ro...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If we read these verses with an eye to the gospel of Christ, (and surely in the present hour it were a folly to read them otherwise), how graciously...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

A fire devoureth before them, and behind them aflame burneth ,.... This is not to be understood of the heat of the sun, or of the great drought that...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

A fire devoureth before them , &c. They consume like a general conflagration. “They destroy the ground,” says Sir Hans Sloane, ( Natural History...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 720. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A fire, either the heat of the sun more vehement than usual, or the locusts, or Chaldeans and Babylonians resembled by locusts, as fire, shall devo...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter still urges repentance, directs for a meeting of the people, and assures that God will have compassion. Joel 2:1...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 2:1 . Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2-3 . Joel 2:2 . A day of darknes...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Joel 2:1-29 These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned by the locusts and the appearance presented by...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Prophet Urges Repentance
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A fire, a most intense and parching heat, devoureth before them, in preparing for the desolation to follow, and behind them a flame burneth, the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 7:4 ; Exodus 10:15 ; Exodus 10:5 ; Ezekiel 31:8 ; Ezekiel 31:9 ; Genesis 13:10 ; Genesis 2:8 ; Isaiah 51:3 ; Jeremiah 5:17 ; Joel 1:19...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

A Bird's-Eye View of Joel Joel 2:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The Book of Joel anticipates the day of Jehovah. The 1st chapter has a definite hi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A fire — The Chaldeans, as a fire shall utterly consume all things. Behind them — What is left behind is as burnt with a flame. As Eden — Fruitful...

³ A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Related Commentaries of Joel 2:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joel 2:3