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

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

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Let the priests, the ministers of LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and do not give thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among t

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through, nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the

They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them. And shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

Ye ministers

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, from which no man has attended to the altar.

But ye shall be named the priests of LORD. Men shall call you the ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory ye shall boast yourselves.

Thus let a man regard us as of helpers of Christ, and managers of mysteries of God.

who also made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a spirit, for the document kills but the spirit makes alive.

but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions,

Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

Lie

David therefore besought God for the child. And David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the ground.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

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

For

The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of LORD. The priests, LORD's ministers, mourn.

And thou shall bring the meal-offering that is made of these things to LORD, and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.

besides the burnt-offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering of it, and the continual burnt-offering and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by

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.