What Does Joel 2:32 Mean in the King James?
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The same Hebrew verb says you call on the LORD’s nature and the LORD calls the remnant, making deliverance a meeting of summons.
THE MEANING
When you call on the LORD’s name, you call on the nature of the one who delivers. The verse places deliverance in Zion and Jerusalem and among a remnant the LORD himself calls; the human call and the divine call meet in the same promise.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief that a person must reach deliverance alone dissolves here: the LORD calls the remnant too.
THE ROOT
יִקְרָא
yiqra
GROWS FROM
קרא
To call out or summon; also to proclaim or read aloud.
קָרָא (qara, call) appears first for the person and again for the LORD: one calls on שֵׁם (shem, name and nature), and the LORD calls the remnant. The echo reveals deliverance as a meeting between appeal to the LORD’s nature and the LORD’s own summons.
ALSO GROWS
qeri'ah: Calling, recitation, or reading aloud.
קְרִיאָה
This branch shows the call as voiced speech, not a silent label or private thought.
miqra: A convocation or assembly called together; also a reading or recitation.
מִקְרָא
The same root can gather people into an assembly, echoing the LORD’s call of the remnant.
THE PATTERN
A cry directed toward the LORD’s nature meets the LORD’s own response and opens into deliverance.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.THE THREAD
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.Joel’s קרא (qara, call) echoes Zechariah’s “they shall call on my name.” Zechariah makes the response explicit, “I will hear them”, opening Joel’s promise as a meeting between the human call and the LORD’s answer.
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