Joel 2:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

Ye children

The former, etc

He will

In

Amos 4:7

General references

Deuteronomy 11:14

Bible References

Ye children

Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.

But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

The former, etc

And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:

My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

He will

Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.

So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

In

And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

General references

Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.