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Joel 3:9-17

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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

Cross References 21

  • 1. [Micah 3:5]
  • 2. [Isaiah 2:4]
  • 3. [Isaiah 2:4]
  • 4. [Isaiah 54:15]
  • 5. [Zechariah 14:5]
  • 6. ver. 2
  • 7. Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; Psalms 110:6; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 3:13; Micah 4:3
  • 8. Revelation 14:15
  • 9. [Jeremiah 51:33; Hosea 6:11; Matthew 13:30, 39; Mark 4:29; John 4:35; Revelation 14:15, 18]
  • 10. Revelation 14:20; [Isaiah 63:2, 3]
  • 11. Revelation 14:20; [Isaiah 63:2, 3]
  • 12. See Joel 1:15
  • 13. See Joel 2:10
  • 14. Joel 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jeremiah 25:30]
  • 15. Joel 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jeremiah 25:30]
  • 16. Joel 2:10
  • 17. Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 25:4
  • 18. Joel 2:27; [Ezekiel 6:7]
  • 19. ver. 21; [Ezekiel 43:7]
  • 20. Joel 2:1; Psalms 48:1; Isaiah 65:11; Jeremiah 31:23
  • 21. Isaiah 52:1; Nahum 1:15; Zechariah 14:21; [Revelation 21:27; Revelation 22:15]

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The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.