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Joel 3:12-21

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12 Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to 1the Valley of Jehoshaphat; 2for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 3Put in the sickle, 4for the harvest is ripe. 5Go in, tread, 6for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For 7the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 8The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
16 9The LORD roars from Zion, and 10utters his voice from Jerusalem, 11and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is 12a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.

The Glorious Future of Judah

17 13"So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, 14who dwells in Zion, 15my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and 16strangers shall never again pass through it.
18 "And in that day 17the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and 18all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; 19and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of 20Shittim.
19 21"Egypt shall become a desolation and 22Edom a desolate wilderness, 23for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 24But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 25I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged,[a] 26for the LORD dwells in Zion."
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Joel 3:12-21 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

Cross References 26

  • 1. ver. 2
  • 2. Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; Psalms 110:6; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 3:13; Micah 4:3
  • 3. Revelation 14:15
  • 4. [Jeremiah 51:33; Hosea 6:11; Matthew 13:30, 39; Mark 4:29; John 4:35; Revelation 14:15, 18]
  • 5. Revelation 14:20; [Isaiah 63:2, 3]
  • 6. Revelation 14:20; [Isaiah 63:2, 3]
  • 7. See Joel 1:15
  • 8. See Joel 2:10
  • 9. Joel 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jeremiah 25:30]
  • 10. Joel 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jeremiah 25:30]
  • 11. Joel 2:10
  • 12. Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 25:4
  • 13. Joel 2:27; [Ezekiel 6:7]
  • 14. ver. 21; [Ezekiel 43:7]
  • 15. Joel 2:1; Psalms 48:1; Isaiah 65:11; Jeremiah 31:23
  • 16. Isaiah 52:1; Nahum 1:15; Zechariah 14:21; [Revelation 21:27; Revelation 22:15]
  • 17. Jeremiah 31:12; Amos 9:13
  • 18. Isaiah 30:25
  • 19. Ezekiel 47:1
  • 20. See Numbers 25:1
  • 21. See Isaiah 19:1-17
  • 22. See Isaiah 34:5
  • 23. Obadiah 10
  • 24. Psalms 125:1, 2; Ezekiel 37:25
  • 25. Isaiah 4:4; Ezekiel 36:25, 29
  • 26. [See ver. 17 above]

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or I will acquit their bloodguilt that I have not acquitted
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