Joel 2:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Blow ye the trumpet, &c.— The prophet in the preceding chapter describes the locusts as the army of God; and now, in pursuance of the same metaphor, exhorts the people to prepare to meet them, in the same terms as if they were alarmed to oppose an enemy, which was always done by the sound of the trumpet. The trumpet in Zephaniah is the same which sounds in Joel; and therefore both proclaim the same event;—the destruction of Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar. See Zephaniah 2:1-2. The same famine, drought, and destruction from the Almighty, are foretold by Jeremiah: and indeed the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subsequent captivity under Nebuchadnezzar, are mentioned by all the prophets who lived from the days of Uzziah to those of Zedekiah; in the eleventh year of whose reign the city was besieged. See Sharpe's Second Argument.

Joel 2:1

1 Blow ye the trumpeta in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;