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

May Israel rejoice in its Maker, and Zion's descendants in their King!

Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!

For I have bent Judah as if it were my bow, loading it with Ephraim. I raised up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, wielding you like a mighty warrior's sword."

But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.

The former, etc

"Then it will come about at a later time that I will pour out my Spirit on every person. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your elderly people will dream dreams, and your young people will see visions.

May my instructions descend like rain and may my words flow like dew, as light rain upon the grass, and as showers upon new plants.

"If there's a messenger appointed to mediate for Job one out of a thousand to represent the man's integrity on his behalf,

May he be like the rain that descends on mown grass, like showers sprinkling on the ground.

And whether you turn to the right or turn to the left, your ears will hear a message behind you: "This is the way, walk in it."

That is why God says, "When he went up to the highest place, he led captives into captivity and gave gifts to people."

He will

then I'll send your rain in its season so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.

then he will send rain on the land in its season the early and latter rains then you'll gather grain, new wine, and oil.

"The LORD will open his rich treasury, the heavens, to release rain upon your land in season and bless everything you undertake so that you'll lend to many nations but won't borrow.

When a king is pleased, there is life, and his favor is like a cloud that brings spring rain.

This is why the rain has been withheld and there are no spring showers. Yet you have a harlot's look and you refuse to be ashamed.

Let us know, let us pursue knowledge of the LORD; his coming is as certain as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain, like the autumn and spring rains come on the earth.

"Ask the LORD for rain in the spring the LORD who fashions lightning thunderstorms, giving rain showers to mankind along with grain in the fields.

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop from his land, being patient with it until it receives the fall and the spring rains.

In

"I therefore have withheld the rain from you three months before the harvest, causing rain to come upon one city, but not upon another, and upon one field but not upon another, so that it would wither.

General references

then he will send rain on the land in its season the early and latter rains then you'll gather grain, new wine, and oil.