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Joel 2:10
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Ante ellos tiembla la tierra, se estremecen los cielos, el sol y la luna se oscurecen, y las estrellas pierden su resplandor.
Delante de �l temblar� la tierra, se estremecer�n los cielos; el sol y la luna se oscurecer�n, y las estrellas retraer�n su resplandor.
Delante de �l temblar� la tierra, se estremecer�n los cielos; el sol y la luna se oscurecer�n, y las estrellas retraer�n su resplandor.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
earth: Psalms 18:7, Psalms 114:7, Nahum 1:5, Matthew 27:51, Revelation 6:12, Revelation 20:11
the sun: Joel 2:2, Joel 2:31, Joel 3:15, Isaiah 13:10, Isaiah 34:4, Jeremiah 4:23, Ezekiel 32:7, Amos 5:8, Matthew 24:29, Mark 13:24, Mark 13:25, Luke 21:25, Luke 21:26, Acts 2:20, Revelation 8:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:14 - and let Joshua 10:13 - So the sun Job 9:6 - the pillars Isaiah 5:30 - if one look Jeremiah 51:29 - the land Joel 3:16 - and the heavens Amos 5:18 - the day of the Lord is Revelation 9:2 - and the sun
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The earth shall quake before them,.... The inhabitants of it, because of the desolating judgments they bring with them, and those enemies that are signified by them:
the heavens shall tremble; being obscured by them:
the sun and moon shall be dark; the locusts sometimes come in such large numbers as to intercept the rays of the sun. Pliny t says they sometimes darken it; and though some thought they did not fly in the night, because of the cold; this he observes is owing to their ignorance, not considering that they pass over wide seas to distant countries; and this will account for it how the moon also may be darkened by them, and the stars, as follows:
and the stars shall withdraw their shining; though all this may be understood in a figurative sense of the great consternation that all sorts of persons should be in at such calamities coming upon the land, either by locusts, or by enemies; as the king, queen, nobles, and the common people of the land, signified by sun, moon, and stars, heaven and earth.
t Ibid. (Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29.)
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The earth shall quake before them - “Not,” says Jerome, “as though locusts or enemies had power to move the heavens or to shake the earth; but because, to those under trouble, for their exceeding terror, the heaven seems to fall and the earth to reel. But indeed, for the multitude of the locusts which cover the heavens, sun and moon shall be turned into darkness, and the stars shall withdraw their shining, while the cloud of locusts interrupts the light, and allows it not to reach the earth.” Yet the mention of moon and stars rather suggests that something more is meant than the locusts, who, not flying by night except when they cross the sea, do not obscure either. Rather, as the next verse speaks of God’s immediate, sensible, presence, this verse seems to pass from the image of the locusts to the full reality, and to say that heaven and earth should shake at the judgments of God, before He appeareth. Our Lord gives the same description of the forerunners of the Day of Judgment; “there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring, people’s hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken” Luke 21:25-26.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. The earth shall quake - the heavens shall tremble — Poetical expressions, to point out universal consternation and distress. The earth quaked to see itself deprived of its verdure; the heavens trembled to find themselves deprived of their light.
The sun and the moon shall be dark — Bochart relates that "their multitude is sometimes so immense as to obscure the heavens for the space of twelve miles!" - Ibid. p. 479.
