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Joel 1:13 Cross-References
Explore 17 cross-references for Joel 1:13 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Joel chapter 1 verse 13 to related passages throughout the Bible.
A Call to Repentance
“Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.”
Joel 1:13 (KJV)
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Commentary on Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests (Hebrew chigru vesphedu hakohanim, חִגְרוּ וְסִפְדוּ הַכֹּהֲנִים)—Joel commands the priests, Israel's spiritual leaders, to lead corporate mourning. The verb chagar (חָגַר, "gird") means to bind on sackcloth, the coarse goat-hair garment worn in mourning. Saphed (סָפַד, "lament") describes loud, public mourning—wailing and beating the breast. Priests who normally wore fine linen must now wear sackcloth, demonstrating that religious status doesn't exempt from judgment.Howl, ye ministers of the altar (Hebrew heililu mesharetey mizbeach, הֵילִילוּ מְשָׁרְתֵ...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Joel 1:13
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“lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.”
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”
“and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces”
“the ministers of Yahweh”
“and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation”
“when Ahab heard those words”
“and put on sackcloth”
“and went in”
“and stewards of God's mysteries.”
“and he shall bring it to the altar.”