Prophets & WritingsOld Testament

Joel

Joel Acts

When

No date

The book names no king and no year. How the dates are worked out

Name meaning

"the LORD is God" · Hebrew

About

Prophet, the son of Pethuel. The book names no king and gives no date. Joel spoke to a land where the locust had eaten what the swarm before it had left behind and the offerings no longer reached the Lord's house. He called priests, elders and people to a fast, warned that the day of the Lord was near, and urged them to turn to the Lord with all their heart. The book answers with promises of grain, wine and oil, of the eaten years restored, of the Lord's Spirit poured out on all flesh, and of the nations judged. Peter quoted him by name at Pentecost (Acts 2:16).

Key Scripture AppearancesKJV

Joel 1:1

The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.Joel 1:1, KJV

Joel 2:13

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.Joel 2:13, KJV

Joel 2:25

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.Joel 2:25, KJV

Joel 2:28

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:Joel 2:28, KJV

Acts 2:16

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;Acts 2:16, KJV

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