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Joel 3:1-6

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Judgment of the Nations

1 [a] Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,[b]
2 I will gather all the nations and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[c] I will enter into judgment with them there because of My people, My inheritance Israel. The nations have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided up My land.
3 They cast lots for My people;[d] they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
4 And also: Tyre, Sidon, and all the territories of Philistia-what are you to Me? Are you paying Me back or trying to get even with Me? I will quickly bring retribution on your heads.[e]
5 For you took My silver and gold and carried My finest treasures[f] to your temples.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks[g] to remove them far from their own territory.
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Joel 3:1-6 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 7

  • [a] Jl 4:1 in Hb
  • [b] Jr 32:44; 33:7,11; Ezk 39:25
  • [c] The Lord Will Judge
  • [d] Ob 11; Nah 3:10
  • [e] Jl 3:7; Ps 28:4
  • [f] 1 Kg 20:6; 2 Ch 36:19; Lm 1:10-11
  • [g] Isa 66:19; Ezk 27:13
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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