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The Book of Joel is a Jewish prophetic text containing a series of "divine announcements". The first line attributes authorship to "Joel the son of Pethuel". [1] It forms part of the Book of the twelve minor prophets or the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and is a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.
— Joel 3:10 or 4:10 in the Masoretic system. This is the opposite of what Micah says in Micah 4:3 (see below). He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall ...
Two images at the end of this chapter are two different forms (cf. Joel 3:13) of 'the traditional eschatological image of harvest': the "grain harvest" (verses 14–16) and the "vintage" (verses 17–20), to follow the messages that the angels have given for the nations of the opportunity to respond to the witness of the martyrs in repentance ...
Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls including 4Q82 (4QXII g; 25 BCE) with extant verses 1, 5–6, 14–15; [8] [9] [10] and Wadi Murabba'at (MurXII; 75–100 CE) with extant verses 1–15. [9] There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE.
OT 15: Apocrypha: Sever Voicu NT 1a: Matthew 1-13: Manlio Simonetti NT 1b: Matthew 14-28: Manlio Simonetti NT 2: Mark: Christopher A. Hall NT 3: Luke: Arthur Just Jr. NT 4a: John 1-10: Joel C. Elowsky NT 4b: John 11-21: Joel C. Elowsky NT 5: Acts: Francis Martin NT 6: Romans: Gerald L. Bray NT 7: 1-2 Corinthians: Gerald L. Bray NT 8: Galatians ...
Joel is mentioned by name only once in the Hebrew Bible, in the introduction to that book, as the son of Pethuel ().The name combines the covenant name of God, YHWH (or Yahweh), and El (god), and has been translated as "YHWH is God" or "one to whom YHWH is God," that is, a worshiper of YHWH.
In Kohelet Rabbah the same comments are found on Ecclesiastes 1:2 as on 6:12; on 1:3 as on 11:9; on 1:13 as on 3:10; on 3:16 as on 10:4; on 6:1 as on 9:13; and on 7:11 as on 9:10; and so on. Verses 2:24, 3:13, 5:17, 8:15 receive the same explanation; and the Epicurean and hedonistic view expressed in them—that for all of man's troubles his ...
The verse is a reversal of Joel 3:10, where the ploughshares and pruning hooks are to become swords and spears, as it is related to 'the need for continued conflict'. [ 6 ] The day of the Lord (2:5–22)