Bible Strands
Joel 2:24
The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord addresses the children of Zion immediately after promising autumn and spring rains, responding to a recent locust devastation.
The words — The Hebrew מָלְא֥וּ (mal.'u) literally means "they will be full," and הֵשִׁ֥יקוּ (he.shi.ku) means "they will overflow."
The thread — Joel 3:18 describes mountains dripping sweet wine and hills flowing with milk, while Amos 9:13 depicts the plowman overtaking the reaper and the grape treader. Malachi 3:10 commands bringing the full tithe into the storehouse so food remains in God’s house.
Why it lands — The text declares a concrete reversal of famine into surplus, requiring the reader to recognize the promise as a direct, physical restoration of agricultural productivity.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Cross-references
- Amos 9:13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
- Malachi 3:10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Joel 3:18 And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
- Leviticus 26:10 You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;
- Joel 3:13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.