Joel 2:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

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  • 2 Chr 20:13 : 13 And all Judah were waiting before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.
  • 1 Sam 16:5 : 5 And he said, In peace: I have come to make an offering to the Lord: make yourselves clean and come with me to make the offering. And he made Jesse and his sons clean, and sent for them to be present at the offering.
  • Exod 19:10 : 10 And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.
  • Exod 19:22 : 22 And let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them suddenly.
  • 2 Chr 29:5 : 5 And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.
  • 2 Chr 29:23-24 : 23 Then they took the he-goats for the sin-offering, placing them before the king and the meeting of the people, and they put their hands on them: 24 And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel.
  • 2 Chr 30:17 : 17 For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.
  • 2 Chr 35:6 : 6 And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.
  • Job 1:5 : 5 And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.
  • Ps 19:5 : 5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.
  • Joel 1:14 : 14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.
  • Jonah 3:7-8 : 7 And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water: 8 And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.
  • Zech 12:11-14 : 11 In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 13 The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 14 And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.
  • Matt 9:15 : 15 And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.
  • Deut 29:10-11 : 10 You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel, 11 And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:
  • Josh 7:13 : 13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.
  • Exod 19:15 : 15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.

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    5Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.

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    1Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

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    1Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;

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    12Young men and virgins; old men and children:

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    17Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

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    8Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

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    18I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.

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    20Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

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    6But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him.

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    3And let all the people come together at the door of the Tent of meeting.

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    17This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:

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    9And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

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    2Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

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    69%

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    68%

    7Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.

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    3When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting.

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    29Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

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    14For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

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    13In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.

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