10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
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Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. …
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here we have God contending with his own professing people for their sins and executing upon them the judgment written in the law (Deut. 28:42), The fruit of thy land shall the locust consume , which was one of those diseases of Egypt that God would bring upon them, Deut. 28:60. I. Here is the war proclaimed (Joel 2:1): Blow the trumpet in Zion , either to call the invading army together, and then…
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