Joel 2:16 “Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gathe…”

Joel 2:16

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

World English Bible

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her chamber.

American Standard Version

gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Geneva Bible 1599

Gather the people: sanctifie the congregation, gather the elders: assemble the children, and those that sucke the breastes: let the bridegrome go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her bride chamber.

Darby Translation

gather the people, hallow the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride from her closet.

Young's Literal Translation

Gather the people, sanctify an assembly, Assemble the aged, Gather infants and sucklings of the breasts, Go out let a bridegroom from his inner chamber, And a bride out of her closet.

Bible in Basic English

Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

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Cross references

“sanctify”

2 Chronicles 29:5 Exodus 19:10 Exodus 19:22 1 Samuel 16:5 Exodus 19:15 Joshua 7:13

2 Chronicles 29:5 · BSB

“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.

Exodus 19:10 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes

Exodus 19:22 · BSB

Even the priests who approach the LORD must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.”

1 Samuel 16:5 · BSB

“In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

Exodus 19:15 · BSB

“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”

Joshua 7:13 · BSB

Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against yo…

“assemble”

2 Chronicles 20:13 Joel 1:14 Deuteronomy 29:10 Deuteronomy 29:11 Jonah 3:7 Jonah 3:8

2 Chronicles 20:13 · BSB

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

Joel 1:14 · BSB

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.

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—

Jonah 3:7 · BSB

Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.

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.

“let”

1 Corinthians 7:5 Zechariah 12:11–14 Matthew 9:15

1 Corinthians 7:5 · BSB

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

Zechariah 12:11–14 · BSB

On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

Matthew 9:15 · BSB

Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

Also

Psalm 19:5

Psalm 19:5 · BSB

Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

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

In context

15Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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