Joel 3:9-17

Listen to Joel 3:9-17

9 Proclaim this among the nations: ¹Consecrate for war; ^[a] stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.

10 ²Beat your plowshares into swords, and ³your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior. ”

11 ⁴Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. ⁵Bring down your warriors, O Lord.

12 Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to ⁶the Valley of Jehoshaphat; ⁷for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

13 ⁸Put in the sickle, ⁹for the harvest is ripe. ¹⁰Go in, tread, ¹¹for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For ¹²the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

15 ¹³The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

16 ¹⁴The Lord roars from Zion, and ¹⁵utters his voice from Jerusalem, ¹⁶and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is ¹⁷a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.

The Glorious Future of Judah

17 ¹⁸“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, ¹⁹who dwells in Zion, ²⁰my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and ²¹strangers shall never again pass through it.

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Joel 3:9-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOEL 3

This chapter, which some make the fourth, contains a prophecy of God's judgments on all the antichristian nations at the time of the Jews' conversion, and the reasons of them, Joe 3:1-3; a threatening of Tyre and Zidon, by way of retaliation, for carrying the riches of the Jews into their temples, and selling their persons to the Greeks, Joe 3:4-8; an alarm to prepare for the battle of Armageddon, or the destruction that shall be made in the valley of Jehoshaphat, Joe 3:9-15; and after that an account of the happy state of the church of Christ, their safety and security, plenty, prosperity, and purity, to the end of the world, Joe 3:16-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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Cross References 21

1. 3:9 [Mic. 3:5]
2. 3:10 [Isa. 2:4]
3. 3:10 [Isa. 2:4]
4. 3:11 [Isa. 54:15]
5. 3:11 [Zech. 14:5]
6. 3:12 ver. 2
7. 3:12 Ps. 96:13; 98:9; 110:6; Isa. 2:4; 3:13; Mic. 4:3
8. 3:13 Rev. 14:15
9. 3:13 [Jer. 51:33; Hos. 6:11; Matt. 13:30, 39; Mark 4:29; John 4:35; Rev. 14:15, 18]
10. 3:13 Rev. 14:20; [Isa. 63:2, 3]
11. 3:13 Rev. 14:20; [Isa. 63:2, 3]
12. 3:14 See ch. 1:15
13. 3:15 See ch. 2:10
14. 3:16 ch. 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jer. 25:30]
15. 3:16 ch. 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jer. 25:30]
16. 3:16 ch. 2:10
17. 3:16 Isa. 4:6; 25:4
18. 3:17 ch. 2:27; [Ezek. 6:7]
19. 3:17 ver. 21; [Ezek. 43:7]
20. 3:17 ch. 2:1; Ps. 48:1; Isa. 65:11; Jer. 31:23
21. 3:17 Isa. 52:1; Nah. 1:15; Zech. 14:21; [Rev. 21:27; 22:15]

Footnotes 1

[a] 3:9 Or 'Consecrate a war'