BLB Joe 2

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Joe 2:17 — Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where [is] their God?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the priests		Joe 1:9,13
between		1Ki 6:3; 2Ch 8:12; Eze 8:16; Mat 23:35
and let		Hsa 14:2
Spare		Exd 32:11-13; Exd 34:9; Deu 9:16-29; Isa 37:20; Isa 64:9-12; Dan 9:18,19; Amo 7:2,5; Mal 1:9
and give		Psa 44:10-14; Psa 74:10,18-23; Psa 79:4; Psa 89:41,51; Eze 36:4-7
that		Neh 9:36; Isa 63:17-19
rule over them		or, use a byword against them. Deu 28:37; 1Ki 9:7; 2Ch 7:20; Psa 44:14
wherefore		Num 14:14-16; Deu 32:27; Psa 42:10; Psa 79:10; Psa 115:2; Eze 20:9; Mic 7:10; Mat 27:43

Correlating Passages

the priests

	Joe 1:9	The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
	Joe 1:13	Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

between

	1Ki 6:3	And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
	2Ch 8:12	Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
	Eze 8:16	And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
	Mat 23:35	That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

and let

Hsa 14:2

Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

Spare

	Exd 32:11	And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
	Exd 32:12	Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
	Exd 32:13	Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever.
	Exd 34:9	And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
	Deu 9:16	And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
	Deu 9:17	And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
	Deu 9:18	And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
	Deu 9:19	For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
	Deu 9:20	And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
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	Isa 37:20	Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD, [even] thou only.
	Isa 64:9	Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.
	Isa 64:10	Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
	Isa 64:11	Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
	Isa 64:12	Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
	Dan 9:18	O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
	Dan 9:19	O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
	Amo 7:2	And it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
	Amo 7:5	Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
	Mal 1:9	And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

and give

	Psa 44:10	Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
	Psa 44:11	Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
	Psa 44:12	Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.
	Psa 44:13	Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
	Psa 44:14	Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
	Psa 74:10	O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
	Psa 74:18	Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
	Psa 74:19	O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
	Psa 74:20	Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
	Psa 74:21	O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
	Psa 74:22	Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
	Psa 74:23	Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
	Psa 79:4	We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
	Psa 89:41	All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
	Psa 89:51	Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
	Eze 36:4	Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that [are] round about;
	Eze 36:5	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
	Eze 36:6	Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
	Eze 36:7	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that [are] about you, they shall bear their shame.

that

	Neh 9:36	Behold, we [are] servants this day, and [for] the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we [are] servants in it:
	Isa 63:17	O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
	Isa 63:18	The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
	Isa 63:19	We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

rule over them

	Deu 28:37	And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
	1Ki 9:7	Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
	2Ch 7:20	Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.
	Psa 44:14	Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

wherefore

	Num 14:14	And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and [that] thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
	Num 14:15	Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
	Num 14:16	Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.