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Joel and Amos: An Introduction and Commentary (Hadjiev) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joel’s arresting imagery—blasting trumpet, darkened sun, and marching hosts—has shaped the church’s eschatological vision of a day of wrath. Amos’s ringing indictments—callous oppression, heartless worship, and self-seeking gain—have periodically awakened the conscience of God’s people. Twenty-five-hundred years later, those prophetic words still speak powerfully. This Tyndale commentary by...

(2:18–27) provides an answer to the first lament (1:4–20), while the second, eschatologically oriented oracle (2:28–3:21 [MT 3:1–4:21]) corresponds to the second disaster, with its apocalyptic flavour and imagery (2:1–17). Assis (2013: 53–54) offers a modified version of this division based on the understanding that Joel deals with two different but interrelated problems: a locust infestation and a military calamity. The first part (1:2–2:17) is the prophet’s call to the people, imploring them to
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