Joe 2:1 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Joel 2:1-11: 2:1-11 Some regard this section as a second account of the locust plague described in ch 1 , but in ch 1 , the plague is in the past, whereas in this section, the verb tenses seem to depict it as a future event. Thus, others see it as a warning of yet another locust plague. Still other commentators have understood this passage as an apocalyptic description of the coming day of the Lord , using the language of a locust plague to describe an invading human army. 2:1 When an ancient city was attacked, the watchmen on the city wall would raise the alarm by blowing the trumpet , a ram’s horn instrument called a shofar (see also 2:15 ), to call all the defenders to repel the enemy.

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Summary for Joel 2:1-11: 2:1-11 ^a Some regard this section as a second account of the locust plague described in ch 1 ^b, but in ch 1 ^c, the plague is in the past, whereas in this section, the verb tenses seem to depict it as a future event. Thus, others see it as a warning of yet another locust plague. Still other commentators have understood this passage as an apocalyptic description of the coming day of the Lord, using the language of a locust plague to describe an invading human army. 2:1 ^d When an ancient city was attacked, the watchmen on the city wall would raise the alarm by blowing the trumpet, a ram’s horn instrument called a shofar (see also 2:15 ^e), to call all the defenders to repel the enemy.