Joel
Old Testament · Minor Prophets · 3 chapters
A plague of locusts becomes a call to repentance and a promise that God will pour out his Spirit on all people.
End TimesProphecyRepentance
Context
- Genre
- Prophecy and liturgy
- Authorship
- The prophet Joel
- Date
- date debated (9th–4th centuries BCE)
- Setting
- Judah
- Original language
- Hebrew
- In the original
- אַרְבֶּהarbeh — locust
- Related texts
- Amos 4–5 · the day of the LordActs 2 · Joel quoted