• Title Page
• Pentateuch
• History
• Poetry
• Prophets
  • Lesson 23: Introduction to the Prophetic Scriptures
  • Lesson 24: Joel
  • Lesson 25: Jonah
  • Lesson 26: Amos
  • Lesson 27: Hosea
  • Lesson 28: Micah
  • Lesson 29: Isaiah
  • Lesson 30: Nahum, Zephaniah, Habakkuk and Obadiah
  • Lesson 31: Jeremiah
  • Lesson 32: Ezekiel
• Post Captivity Prophets
• Gospels, Acts
• Pauline Epistles
• General Epistles

• Joel 2
  • A recurrence to the same judgments, Joel 2:1-3
  • A description of their executioners in which there is a blending of the idea of the locusts with that of the warriors. The picture is made the more vivid by the use of the present tense as seen in the Revised Version, Joel 2:4-11
  • A call to repentance, Joel 2:12-17
  • A promise of future blessing, Joel 2:18-32
    • The enemies overthrown, Joel 2:18-20
    • The land blessed, Joel 2:21-27
    • The Holy Spirit poured out, Joel 2:28-32
• Joel 3
  • This chapter recurs to the future blessing spoken of in the preceding chapter, for the purpose of amplifying some of its features, a peculiarity of all the prophets, as was indicated in one of our earliest lessons:
  • The overthrow of the enemy, Joel 3:1-15
  • The deliverance of Jerusalem, Joel 3:16-17
  • The blessing on the land, Joel 3:18
  • The permanency of the restoration, Joel 3:19-20

Jonah

The reason for placing the study of Jonah next to Joel is simply, that as near as we can gather the two were probably contemporary, the one in Judah as we have seen, the other in Israel. There is, indeed, however, only a single reference to any prophesying of Jonah in connection with his own people, and that is found in II Kings 14:25. A prediction he had made concerning the restoration of the coasts of Israel had been fulfilled in the reign of Jeroboam II, somewhere about 800 B.C., showing that Jonah must have flourished at an earlier date, though how much earlier, no one knows. Of his personal history nothing more can be told than that recorded in the same verse with the exception of what we find in his written book.

That book contains the record of his special mission to the great Gentile city of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, a story as familiar as that of any of the old patriarchs. Every one knows how Jonah refused to comply with the divine command, the punishment which befell him in being swallowed by the great fish, the repentance