Joel 1:14 “Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and a…”

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

World English Bible

Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD.

American Standard Version

Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

Sanctifie you a fast: call a solemne assemblie: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the House of the Lord your God, and cry vnto the Lord,

Darby Translation

Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Sanctify a fast, proclaim a restraint, Gather the elders — all the inhabitants of the land, [Into] the house of Jehovah your God,

Bible in Basic English

Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

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Cross references

“Sanctify”

Joel 2:15 Joel 2:16 2 Chronicles 20:3 2 Chronicles 20:4

Joel 2:15 · BSB

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

Joel 2:16 · BSB

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

2 Chronicles 20:3 · BSB

Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:4 · BSB

So the people of Judah gathered to seek the LORD, and indeed, they came from all the cities of Judah to seek Him.

“solemn assembly”

Leviticus 23:36 Nehemiah 8:18

Leviticus 23:36 · BSB

For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

Nehemiah 8:18 · BSB

Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.

“the elders”

2 Chronicles 20:13 Deuteronomy 29:10 Deuteronomy 29:11 Nehemiah 9:2 Nehemiah 9:3

2 Chronicles 20:13 · BSB

Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.

Deuteronomy 29:10 · BSB

All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29:11 · BSB

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

Nehemiah 9:2 · BSB

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Nehemiah 9:3 · BSB

While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and they spent another quarter of the day in confession and worship of the LORD their God.

“cry”

Jonah 3:8

Jonah 3:8 · BSB

Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

15Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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