Dict: smith - JOEL

smith:

JOEL - J>@ - (to whom Jehovah is God). Eldest son of Samuel the prophet, ( kjv@1Samuel:8:2; kjv@1Chronicles:6:33 kjv@1Chronicles:15:17) and father of Heman the singer. (B.C. 1094.) In ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:36) Authorized Version, Joel seems to be merely a corruption of Shaul in ver. 24. A Simeonite chief. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:35) A descendant of Reuben. Junius and Tremellius make him the son of Hanoeh, while others trace his descent through Carmi. ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:4) (B.C. before 1092.) Chief of the Gadites, who dwelt in the land of Bashan. ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:12) (B.C. 782.) The son of Izrahiah, of the tribe of Issachar. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:3) The brother of Nathan of Zobah, ( kjv@1Chronicles:11:38) and one of David’s guard. The chief of the Gershomites in the reign of David. ( kjv@1Chronicles:15:7 kjv@1Chronicles:15:11) A Gershonite Levite in the reign of David, son of Jehiel, a descendant of Laadan, and probably the same as the preceding. ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:8 kjv@1Chronicles:26:22) (B.C. 1014.) The son of Pedaiah, and a chief of the half-tribe of Manasseh west of Jordan, in the reign of David. ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:20) (B.C. 1014.) A Kohathite Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:29:12) (B.C. 726.) One of the sons of Nebo, who returned with Ezra, and had married a foreign wife. kjv@Ezra:10:43) (B.C. 459.) The son of Zichri, a Benjamite. kjv@Nehemiah:11:9) The second of the twelve minor prophets, the son of Pethuel, probably prophesied in Judah in the reign of Uzziah, about B.C. 800. The book of Joel contains a grand outline of the whole terrible scene, which was to be depicted more and more in detail by subsequent prophets. The proximate event to which the prophecy related was a public calamity, then impending on Judah, of a two-plague of locusts
and continuing for several years. The prophet exhorts the people to turn to God with penitence, fasting and prayer; and then, he says, the plague shall cease, and the rain descendent in its season, and the land yield her accustomed fruit. Nay, the time will be a most joyful one; for God, by the outpouring of his Spirit, will extend the blessings of true religion to heathen lands. The prophecy is referred to in kjv@Acts:2.

JOELAH - J>@ - (Jehovah helps), son of Jerohoam of Gedor. ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:7)