Joel 1:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:20

And Jehu said, Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal. So a public statement was made.

2 Chronicles 20:13

And all Judah were waiting before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Nehemiah 8:18

And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.

Esther 4:16

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Jeremiah 36:9

Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.

Joel 1:2

Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

Leviticus 23:36

Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

Jonah 3:5

And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

Jonah 3:8

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.

Zephaniah 2:1

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