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Joel 3:9-14

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9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; rouse the warriors; let all the men of war advance and attack!
10 Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning knives into spears.[a] Let even the weakling say: I am a warrior.
11 Come quickly,[b] all you surrounding nations; gather yourselves. Bring down Your warriors there, Lord.
12 Let the nations be roused and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Swing the sickle because the harvest is ripe. Come and trample [the grapes] because the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because the wickedness of the nations is great.[c]
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
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Joel 3:9-14 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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Footnotes 3

  • [a] Isa 2:4; Mc 4:3
  • [b] LXX, Syr, Tg read Gather yourselves and come; Hb obscure
  • [c] Rv 19:14-16
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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