Joel 1:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Gird

Ezekiel 7:18

Ye ministers

2 Corinthians 11:23

Lie

2 Samuel 12:16

1 Kings 21:27

Jonah 3:5

For

Joel 1:9

Leviticus 2:8

Numbers 29:6

General references

Isaiah 37:2

Bible References

Gird

Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O Jehovah, and give not Your inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they say among the people, Where is their God?

Put on sackcloth for this, wail and howl; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

I will take up a weeping and a wailing for the mountains, and a mourning for the pastures of the wilderness; because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

They shall also gird on sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all heads.

Ye ministers

Do you not know that those who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And those attending the altar are partakers with the altar.

For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man gave attendance at the altar.

But you will be named the priests of Jehovah; it will be said of you, Ministers of our God; you will eat the riches of the nations, and you will revel in their glory.

So let a man think of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

Lie

And David prayed to God for the child. And David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the earth.

And it happened when Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth and walked softly.

And the people of Nineveh believed God. And they called a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

For

The food offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

And you shall bring the food offering that is made of these things to Jehovah. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.

besides the burnt offering of the month, and its food offering, and the daily burnt offering, and its food offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, a fire offering to Jehovah.

General references

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.