Bible Strands
Joel 2:29
Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Israel through the prophet Joel, immediately following a promise to pour out His Spirit on "all people" and immediately preceding a description of cosmic signs.
The words — The Hebrew אֶשְׁפּוֹךְ ('eshpokh) means "I will pour out," directly applied to הָעֲבָדִים (ha'avadim, male servants) and הַשְּׁפָח֑וֹת (hashpechot, female servants).
The thread — This inclusion of servants alongside free citizens anticipates New Testament declarations that dissolve social divisions, specifically 1 Corinthians 12:13, Galatians 3:28, and Colossians 3:11.
Why it lands — The text states that prophetic empowerment extends to the lowest social class, requiring the reader to abandon status-based assumptions about who receives divine authority.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Cross-references
- 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 3:11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.