Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
A spirited introduction calling attention.
old men—the best judges in question concerning the past (Deuteronomy 32:7; Job 32:7).
Hath this been, etc.—that is, Hath any so grievous a calamity as this ever been before? No such plague of locusts had been since the ones in Egypt. Exodus 10:14 is not at variance with this verse, which refers to Judea, in which Joel says there had been no such devastation before.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Joel 1:2:
Revelation 9:12
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