Joel 2:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those who nurse at the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

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  • 2 Chr 20:13 : 13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • 1 Sam 16:5 : 5 And he said, Peaceably: I have come to sacrifice to the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
  • Exod 19:10 : 10 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes,
  • Exod 19:22 : 22 And let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.
  • 2 Chr 29:5 : 5 And said to them, Hear me, Levites, sanctify yourselves now and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness from the holy place.
  • 2 Chr 29:23-24 : 23 And they brought forth the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation, and they laid their hands upon them. 24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel, for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
  • 2 Chr 30:17 : 17 For there were many in the congregation who were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passovers for everyone that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 That prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
  • 2 Chr 35:6 : 6 So kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
  • Job 1:5 : 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
  • Ps 19:5 : 5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
  • Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
  • Jonah 3:7-8 : 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands.
  • Zech 12:11-14 : 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; 14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
  • Matt 9:15 : 15 And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast.
  • Deut 29:10-11 : 10 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God: your leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and your foreigners that are in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water:
  • Josh 7:13 : 13 Get up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.
  • Exod 19:15 : 15 And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Joel 2:15
    86%

    15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.

  • Joel 1:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

    14Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

  • Jer 4:5
    73%

    5Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

  • Joel 2:1
    72%

    1Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming, for it is near at hand;

  • Zeph 2:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired;

    2Before the decree comes forth, before the day passes like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.

  • Jer 16:9
    72%

    9For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease from this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

  • Ps 148:12
    71%

    12Both young men and maidens, old men and children;

  • Joel 2:17
    71%

    17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Joel 1:8
    70%

    8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • Zeph 3:18
    70%

    18I will gather those who are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of you, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

  • Isa 26:20
    70%

    20Come, my people, enter your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

  • Matt 25:6
    70%

    6And at midnight a cry was made: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him.

  • Lev 8:3
    70%

    3And gather all the congregation together at the entrance of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Jer 9:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilled women, that they may come:

    18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

  • Joel 3:11
    69%

    11Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.

  • Deut 31:12
    69%

    12Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and your stranger that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

  • Joel 3:9
    69%

    9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

  • Hos 2:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

    3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

  • Jer 25:10
    69%

    10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

  • Num 8:9
    69%

    9And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of meeting, and gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together.

  • Jer 7:34
    69%

    34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land will be desolate.

  • Isa 62:5
    69%

    5For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

  • Jer 2:2
    69%

    2Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your engagements, when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

  • Isa 22:12
    69%

    12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

  • Lam 2:10
    69%

    10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have thrown dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

  • Isa 66:11
    68%

    11That you may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

  • Isa 62:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9But those who have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and those who have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

    10Pass through, pass through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; remove the stones; lift up a banner for the people.

  • Zeph 1:7
    68%

    7Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD has prepared a sacrifice, He has consecrated His guests.

  • Mic 2:12
    68%

    12I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of people.

  • Num 10:3
    68%

    3And when they blow them, all the assembly shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tabernacle of meeting.

  • Num 10:7
    68%

    7But when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

  • 2 Chr 34:29
    68%

    29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Hos 2:14
    68%

    14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

  • 2 Chr 29:15
    68%

    15And they gathered their brethren, sanctified themselves, and came according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

  • Jer 31:13
    68%

    13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

  • Amos 8:13
    68%

    13In that day the beautiful virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.

  • Deut 20:7
    68%

    7And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Jer 6:11
    68%

    11Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding it in. I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

  • Exod 19:15
    68%

    15And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.

  • Amos 4:3
    68%

    3And you shall go out at the breaches, each cow straight ahead, and you shall cast them into the palace, says the LORD.

  • Rev 19:7
    68%

    7Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.

  • Ezek 16:37
    68%

    37Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those that you have loved, with all those that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.

  • Lam 1:4
    67%

    4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Jer 33:11
    67%

    11The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for His mercy endures forever: and of those who shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return, as at the first, says the LORD.

  • Ezra 10:7
    67%

    7And they issued a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather at Jerusalem;