15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
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Sanctify 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,
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)We have here an earnest exhortation to repentance, inferred from that desolating judgment described and threatened in the Joel 2:1-11: Therefore now turn you to the Lord . 1. “Thus you must answer the end and intention of the judgment; for it was sent for this end, to convince you of your sins, to humble you for them, to reduce you to your right minds and to your allegiance.” God brings us into st…
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