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

Let Israel be glad in his Maker;
Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King.

The precious sons of Zion,
Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as earthen jars,
The work of a potter’s hands!

For I will bend Judah as My bow,
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece;
And I will make you like a warrior’s sword.

But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.

The former, etc

“

It will come about after this

That I will pour out My Spirit on all

mankind;

And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.

“Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,

As the droplets on the fresh grass

And as the showers on the herb.

“If there is an angel as mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To remind a man what is right for him,

May he come down like rain upon the mown grass,

Like showers that water the earth.

Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.

Therefore it says,
“When He ascended on high,
He

led captive a host of captives,

And He gave gifts to men.”

He will

then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

that

He will give the rain for your land in its season, the

early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.

The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

In the light of a king’s face is life,
And his favor is like a cloud with the

spring rain.

“Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you had a harlot’s forehead;
You refused to be ashamed.

“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

Ask rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain—
The Lord who makes the storm clouds;
And He will give them showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each man.

Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.

In

“Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you
While there were still three months until harvest.
Then I would send rain on one city
And on another city I would not send rain;
One part would be rained on,
While the part not rained on would dry up.

General references

that

He will give the rain for your land in its season, the

early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.