Joel 2:16

WEB

¹⁶Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her chamber.

KJV

¹⁶Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

BSB

¹⁶Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

FBV

¹⁶Gather the people together: the elders, the children, even the babies. Let the bridegroom leave his room; let the bride leave her room.

Extra References

2 Chronicles 29:5

⁵and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.

2 Chronicles 20:13

¹³All Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

1 Corinthians 7:5

⁵Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Exodus 19:22

²²Let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break out on them.”

Joel 1:14

¹⁴Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD.

1 Samuel 16:5

⁵He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

Exodus 19:10

¹⁰The LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

Exodus 19:15

¹⁵He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

2 Chronicles 35:6

⁶Kill the Passover lamb, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the LORD’s word by Moses.”

2 Chronicles 30:17

¹⁷For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD.