Joel 2:6

people. people's.

blackness. paleness.

Related Commentaries of Joel 2:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before their face the people shall be much pained - The locust being such a scourge of God, good reason have men to be terrified at their approac...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces (e) shall gather blackness. (e) They will be pale and black because of fear, as in ( Na...
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

At length he adds, As a strong people, prepared for battle; their face the people will dread, and all faces shall gather blackness. By these...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. All faces shall gather blackness - Universal mourning shall take...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Before their face, &c.— At their approach the people tremble: all faces contract paleness.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. Before their face the people shall be much pained - name...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

RV 'At their presence the peoples are in anguish: all faces are waxed pale.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

All faces shall gather blackness. — There are different explanations of this Hebrew phrase, which expresses the result of terror. Some translate it...
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

It will be very easy for a child of God to make a gracious improvement of what is here said, if read spiritually with an eye to soul exercises, in th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Before their face the people shall be much pained ,.... Or, "at their presence"; at the sight of them they shall be in pain, as a woman in travail;...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. Ver. 6. Before their face the people shall be much pained ] T...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses Bochart and many other writers mention the resemblance which the head of a locust bears to...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

Before their face, at the sight of these locusts, both literally and figuratively considered, the people of the land shall be much pained; as a w...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The March Of The Young Locust/Grasshopperss ( Joel 2:4-11 ). Joel then describes the onward ‘march' of the young locusts in their mass movement ma...
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

Before their face, as they proceed on their path of devastation, the people, all those so visited, shall be much pained, trembling and helpless w...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 13:8 ; Jeremiah 30:6 ; Jeremiah 8:21 ; Lamentations 4:8 ; Nahum 2:10 ; Psalms 119:83
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

Blackness — Such as is the colour of dead men, or the dark paleness of men frightened into swoons.

⁶ Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.c

Related Commentaries of Joel 2:6

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

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the 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 2:6