Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
⛓ Read Joel 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The eschatological 'day of the Lord' (here 'day of Christ/the Lord') that Paul corrects the Thessalonians about derives its weight from the prophetic Day-of-the-Lord tradition, of which Joel is a primary witness. Joel sounds the alarm that the day is near and dreadful.
High confidence'Blow the trumpet in Zion... for the day of the LORD is coming' — the trumpet as alarm announcing the Day of the LORD and an attendant army; coheres tightly with Revelation's trumpet-judgments and the locust/fire imagery to follow.
High confidence'Blow the trumpet in Zion... for the day of the LORD is coming' associates the trumpet blast with the day of the Lord, the framework for Paul's trumpet and parousia. Continues into 1 Thess 5's 'day of the Lord.'
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The trumpet 'for war' and alarm imagery (14:8) coheres with Joel's command to 'Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm,' the paradigmatic intelligible warning-blast. The link reinforces the Numbers trumpet motif but is secondary; Paul's point about distinct sounds matches the prophetic alarm-trumpet's purpose of rousing the people.
Medium confidenceThe trumpet-voice may also carry Joel's eschatological alarm announcing the Day of Yahweh, consonant with 'the Lord's day' just named. Verbal volume is modest (shared image, not phrasing), so medium and contested against the Sinai/Exod 19 reading.
Medium confidence'Blow the trumpet in Zion... for the day of the LORD is coming' is part of the prophetic Day-of-the-LORD trumpet tradition behind 'the last trumpet' (v.52). Volume is low and the motif is diffuse across several prophets, so this is a faint echo alongside Isaiah 27:13 and Zechariah 9:14.
Low confidence'The day of the LORD comes... it is near' — eschatological imminence behind 'the hour of his judgment has come.' Faint, thematic.
Low confidence