meat offering = the meal or gift offering. Hebrew. minchah. See App-43. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 2). App-92. Compare Joe_2:14.
drink offering. Ref to Pentateuch (Exo_29:40. Lev_23:13. Num_15:3-10) and App-92. See App-43.
ministers. Reference to Pentateuch (Num_3:6, &c.) App-92.
field . . . wasted. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew. shuddad. . . sadeh
land = soil. Hebrew 'adamah Not the same word as in verses: Joe_2:6, Joe_2:14, &c., in this book; but the same as in Joe_2:21. Verses 10-12 show why the offerings cannot be brought.
new wine. Hebrew tirosh. App-27. Same word as in Joe_2:19, Joe_2:24. Not the some as in Joe_1:5 and Joe_8:18.