OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 1:2

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Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

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Verse 2. Men. Magistrates, and all who have children. Bible. He speaks to Juda, as the kingdom of Israel was ruined. Calmet. 3:2. His principal object is to describe the ravages of locusts, and to exhort the people to repent, promising them better times after the captivity, and under the Messias. Calmet. 2:28 and 3:20. Calmet.

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