Joel 2:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

Joel 2:18 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 8:2
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
Psalms 103:13
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
Zechariah 1:14
So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Lamentations 3:22
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
James 5:11
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 18-27)

See how ready God is to succour and relieve his people, how he waits to be gracious; as soon as ever they humble themselves under this hand, and pray, and seek his face, he immediately meets them with his favours. They prayed that God would spare them, and see here with what good words and comfortable words he answered them; for God’s promises are real answers to the prayers of faith, because with…

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

(vv. 18)

18. Then--when God sees His people penitent. be jealous for his land--as a husband jealous of any dishonor done to the wife whom he loves, as if done to himself. The Hebrew comes from an Arabic root, “to be flushed in face” through indignation.