Joel 1:2-4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17. A Description of the Plague of Locusts, and a Summons to an Assembly for Confession and Intercession.

Joel 1:2-4. The Unprecedented Character of the Plague. No living Jew has experienced so terrible a plague: it will be talked of in generations yet to come. The locusts have eaten the land absolutely bare.

Joel 1:2. ye old men: might also be rendered ye elders, i.e. officials; but the words are probably a later insertion.

Joel 1:4. palmerworm, locust, cankerworm, caterpillar: neither of the suggestions in mg. is probable. The names, which may be rendered shearer, devastator, lapper, finisher, are different names for locust, each expressing its destructive power.

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Joel 1:2-4

2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

4 That which the palmerworma hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.