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Selected Verse: Joel 1:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joe 1:9 |
Strong Concordance |
The meat offering [04503] and the drink offering [05262] is cut off [03772] from the house [01004] of the LORD [03068]; the priests [03548], the LORD'S [03068] ministers [08334], mourn [056]. |
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King James |
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The greatest sorrow to the mind of a religious Jew, and what ought to impress the whole nation with a sense of God's displeasure, is the cessation of the usual temple-worship.
meat offering--Hebrew, mincha; "meat" not in the English sense "flesh," but the unbloody offering made of flour, oil, and frankincense. As it and the drink offering or libation poured out accompanied every sacrificial flesh offering, the latter is included, though not specified, as being also "cut off," owing to there being no food left for man or beast.
priests . . . mourn--not for their own loss of sacrificial perquisites (Num 18:8-15), but because they can no longer offer the appointed offerings to Jehovah, to whom they minister. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off - The meat offering and drink offering were part of every sacrifice. If the materials for these, the grain and wine, ceased, through locusts or drought or the wastings of war, the sacrifice must become mangled and imperfect. The priests were to mourn for the defects of the sacrifice; they lost also their own subsistence, since the altar was, to them, in place of all other inheritance. The meat and drink offerings were emblems of the materials of the holy eucharist, by which Malachi foretold that, when God had rejected the offering of the Jews, there should be a "pure offering" among the pagan Joe 1:11. When then holy communions become rare, the meat and drink offering are literally cut off from the house of the Lord, and those who are indeed priests, the ministers of the Lord, should mourn. Joel foretells that, however love should wax cold, there should ever be such. He forsees and foretells at once, the failure, and the grief of the priests. Nor is it an idle regret which he foretells, but a mourning unto their God. : "Both meat offering and drink offering hath perished from the house of God, not in actual substance but as to reverence, because, amid the prevailing iniquity there is scarcely found in the Church, who should duly celebrate, or receive the sacraments." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The drink - offering - By the destruction of the vines, all wine (out of which they ought to offer the drink - offering) failed. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off - The crops and the vines being destroyed by the locusts, thee total devastation in plants, trees, corn, etc., is referred to and described with a striking variety of expression in this and the following verses. |
8 And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Aaron [0175], Behold, I also have given [05414] thee the charge [04931] of mine heave offerings [08641] of all the hallowed things [06944] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478]; unto thee have I given [05414] them by reason of the anointing [04888], and to thy sons [01121], by an ordinance [02706] for ever [05769].
9 This shall be thine of the most [06944] holy things [06944], reserved from the fire [0784]: every oblation [07133] of theirs, every meat offering [04503] of theirs, and every sin offering [02403] of theirs, and every trespass offering [0817] of theirs, which they shall render [07725] unto me, shall be most [06944] holy [06944] for thee and for thy sons [01121].
10 In the most [06944] holy [06944] place shalt thou eat [0398] it; every male [02145] shall eat [0398] it: it shall be holy [06944] unto thee.
11 And this is thine; the heave offering [08641] of their gift [04976], with all the wave offerings [08573] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478]: I have given [05414] them unto thee, and to thy sons [01121] and to thy daughters [01323] with thee, by a statute [02706] for ever [05769]: every one that is clean [02889] in thy house [01004] shall eat [0398] of it.
12 All the best [02459] of the oil [03323], and all the best [02459] of the wine [08492], and of the wheat [01715], the firstfruits [07225] of them which they shall offer [05414] unto the LORD [03068], them have I given [05414] thee.
13 And whatsoever is first ripe [01061] in the land [0776], which they shall bring [0935] unto the LORD [03068], shall be thine; every one that is clean [02889] in thine house [01004] shall eat [0398] of it.
14 Every thing devoted [02764] in Israel [03478] shall be thine.
15 Every thing that openeth [06363] the matrix [07358] in all flesh [01320], which they bring [07126] unto the LORD [03068], whether it be of men [0120] or beasts [0929], shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn [01060] of man [0120] shalt thou surely [06299] redeem [06299], and the firstling [01060] of unclean [02931] beasts [0929] shalt thou redeem [06299].
11 Be ye ashamed [03001], O ye husbandmen [0406]; howl [03213], O ye vinedressers [03755], for the wheat [02406] and for the barley [08184]; because the harvest [07105] of the field [07704] is perished [06].