THE ALARM SOUNDED (v. 2:1–2) Upon the walls of Jerusalem stood the alert sentry, always watchful, with trumpet (shofar) in hand, ready to sound the alarm of impending danger. But here the warning was to be sounded from a different platform. The message will be heralded from “Zion,” the “holy mountain” (v. 1), which has reference to Mount Moriah, where Solomon’s Temple stood. The priest (v. 15), not the soldier, was to blow the shofar and not as a military alert, but to gather Judah for individual
Joel 2:1–2