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  • 1 Chronicles 12:7View Full Chapter

    7 Joelah; and Zebadiah, Jeroham’s son from Gedor.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:7View Full Chapter

    7 Joel, the leader of Gershom’s family, and 130 of his relatives;

  • 1 Chronicles 15:11View Full Chapter

    11 David called for the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:17View Full Chapter

    17 So the Levites appointed Heman, Joel’s son; and from his relatives, Asaph, Berechiah’s son; and from their Merarite relatives, Ethan, Kushaiah’s son;

  • 1 Chronicles 23:8View Full Chapter

    8 Ladan’s family: Jehiel the first, Zetham, and Joel—three in all.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:22View Full Chapter

    22 Jehieli’s family: Zetham and Joel his brother were in charge of the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:20View Full Chapter

    20 for the Ephraimites—Hoshea, Azaziah’s son;

    for half the tribe of Manasseh—Joel, Pedaiah’s son;

  • 2 Chronicles 29:12View Full Chapter

    12 Then the following Levites got up:

    from the descendants of the Kohathites: Mahath, Amasai’s son, and Joel, Azariah’s son;

    from the descendants of Merari: Kish, Abdi’s son, and Azariah, Jehallelel’s son;

    from the Gershonites: Joah, Zimmah’s son, and Eden, Joah’s son;

  • Ezra 10:43View Full Chapter

    43 Of the family of Nebu: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.

  • Nehemiah 11:9View Full Chapter

    9 Joel son of Zichri was their supervisor, and Judah son of Hassenuah was second in charge of the city.

  • Joel 1View Full Chapter

    Song of lament

    1 The Lord’s word that came to Joel, Pethuel’s son:

    2 Hear this, elders;
        pay attention, everyone in the land!
    Has anything like this ever happened in your days,
        or in the days of your ancestors?
    3 Tell it to your children,
        and have your children tell their children,
        and their children tell their children.
    4 What the cutting locust left,
        the swarming locust has eaten.
    What the swarming locust left,
        the hopping locust has eaten.
    And what the hopping locust left,
        the devouring locust has eaten.
    5 Wake up, you who drink too much, and weep.
    Scream over the sweet wine,
        all you wine drinkers,
        because it is snatched from your mouth;
    6     because a nation, powerful and beyond number,
            has invaded my land.

    Its teeth are like lions’ teeth;
        its fangs are like those of a lioness.
    7 It has destroyed my vines,
        splintered my fig trees,
        stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
        their branches have turned white.
    8 Lament like a woman dressed in funeral clothing,
        one who has lost the husband of her youth.
    9 The grain offering and the drink offering are gone from the Lord’s temple.
    The priests and the Lord’s ministers mourn.
    10 The fields are devastated,
            the ground mourns;
        for the grain is destroyed,
            the new wine dries up,
            the olive oil fails.
    11 Be shocked, you farmers;
        howl, you vinedressers,
            over the wheat and the barley,
        for the crops of the field are destroyed.
    12 The grapevine is dried up;
        the fig tree withers.
    Pomegranate, palm, and apple—
        all the trees of the field are dried up.
    Joy fades away from the people.

    Call to mourn

    13 Dress for a funeral and grieve, you priests;
            lament, ministers of the altar.
        Come, spend the night in funeral clothing, servants of my God,
        because the grain offering and the drink offering
            have gone from the temple of your God.
    14 Demand a fast,
            request a special assembly.
        Gather the elders
            and all the land’s people
            to the temple of the Lord your God,
                and cry out to the Lord.

    Time of suffering

    15 What a terrible day!
        The day of the Lord is near;
            it comes like chaos from the Almighty.
    16 Isn’t the food cut off
        right before our eyes?
        Aren’t joy and gladness also gone from our God’s house?
    17 The grain shrivels under the shovels;
        the barns are empty.
    The granaries are in ruin
        because the grain has dried up.
    18 How the animals groan!
        Herds of cattle are in distress
            because there is no pasture for them;
        even the flocks of sheep pant.

    The prophet’s prayer

    19 To you, Lord, I cry,
        for fire has completely destroyed
            the pastures of the wilderness;
        and flames have burned
            all the trees of the field.
    20 Even the field’s wild animals cry to you
            because the streams have dried up;
        the fire has completely destroyed
            the meadows of the wilderness.

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