Joel 1:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

Joel 1:14 —

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Cross-References

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Joel 2:15-16
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: …
Deuteronomy 29:10-11
Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, …
Jonah 3:8
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
2 Chronicles 20:13
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
2 Chronicles 20:3-4
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-20)

We have observed abundance of tears shed for the destruction of the fruits of the earth by the locusts; now here we have those tears turned into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation before God. The judgment was very heavy, and here they are directed to own the hand of God in it, his mighty hand, and to humble themselves under it. Here is, I. A proclamation issued out for a general…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. Sanctify ... a fast--Appoint a solemn fast. solemn assembly--literally, a “day of restraint” or cessation from work, so that all might give themselves to supplication (Joe 2:15, 16; 1Sa 7:5, 6; 2Ch 20:3-13). elders--The contrast to “children” (Joe 2:16) requires age to be intended, though probably elders in office are included. Being the people’s leaders in guilt, they ought to be their leader…