Joel 2:24
What does Joel 2:24 mean?
A plain-English look at Joel 2:24 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Joel 2:24 means
The promise of God’s restoration culminates in overwhelming agricultural abundance. The threshing floors, where grain is processed, will be filled to capacity with wheat, and the vats, used for storing liquids, will overflow with new wine and oil. This imagery of overflowing plenty signifies not just sufficiency, but superabundance. It serves as a tangible demonstration of God’s complete reversal of the previous scarcity and devastation, moving His people from despair to a state of overflowing blessing and prosperity.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And full have been the floors <FI>with<Fi> pure corn, And overflown have the presses <FI>with<Fi> new wine and oil.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall overflow with wine, and oil.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the floors shall be full of corn, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
Context
Following the promise of abundant rain in verse 23, this verse describes the direct and tangible result of that divine provision: overflowing harvests. It vividly illustrates the extent of agricultural restoration with images of full floors and overflowing vats, demonstrating the completeness of God's blessing and leading directly into the explicit promise of restoring past losses.
v.23Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.
v.24This passage
v.25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Malachi 3:10
Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
- Proverbs 3:9
Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:
- Joel 3:13
Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
- Joel 3:18
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
- Leviticus 26:10
And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the new.
- Amos 9:13
Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
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