OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 1:14

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

14

Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 14. Sanctify. Appoint ( Bible.) or proclaim a general fast, as was usual in such emergencies. 3 Kennicott. 21:9 and 2 Chronicles 20:3. Fasting and other good works are calculated to appease God’s wrath. Worthington.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter