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Joel 3:3-13

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3 "They have also 1cast lots for My people, 2Traded a boy for a harlot And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.
4 "Moreover, what are you to Me, O 3Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of 4Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will 5return your recompense on your head.
5 "Since you have 6taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,
6 and sold the 7sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,
7 behold, I am going to 8arouse them from the place where * you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head.
8 "Also I will 9sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the 10Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.
9 11Proclaim this among the nations: 12Prepare a war; 13rouse the mighty men! Let all the soldiers * draw near, let them come up!
10 14Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; 15Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."
11 16Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your 17mighty ones.
12 Let the nations be aroused And come up to the 18valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to 19judge All the surrounding nations.
13 20Put in the sickle, for the 21harvest is ripe. Come, 22tread, for the 23wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their 24wickedness is great.
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Joel 3:3-13 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 24

  • 1. Obadiah 11; Nahum 3:10
  • 2. Amos 2:6
  • 3. Isaiah 23:1-18; Amos 1:9, 10; Zechariah 9:2-4; Matthew 11:21, 22; Luke 10:13, 14
  • 4. Isaiah 14:29-31; Jeremiah 47:1-7; Ezekiel 25:15-17; Amos 1:6-8; Zechariah 9:5-7
  • 5. Isaiah 34:8; Isaiah 59:18
  • 6. 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Chronicles 21:16, 17
  • 7. Ezekiel 27:13
  • 8. Isaiah 43:5, 6; Jeremiah 23:8; Zechariah 9:13
  • 9. Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 60:14
  • 10. Job 1:15; Psalms 72:10; Ezekiel 38:13
  • 11. Jeremiah 51:27
  • 12. Jeremiah 6:4; Ezekiel 38:7; Micah 3:5
  • 13. Isaiah 8:9, 10; Jeremiah 46:3, 4; Zechariah 14:2, 3
  • 14. Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3
  • 15. Zechariah 12:8
  • 16. Ezekiel 38:15, 16
  • 17. Isaiah 13:3
  • 18. Joel 3:2, 14
  • 19. Psalms 7:6; Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 3:13
  • 20. Revelation 14:14-19
  • 21. Jeremiah 51:33; Hosea 6:11
  • 22. Revelation 14:19, 20; Revelation 19:15
  • 23. Isaiah 63:3; Lamentations 1:15
  • 24. Genesis 18:20

Footnotes 5

  • [a] Lit "Given"
  • [b] Lit "goodly things"
  • [c] Lit "sons of Javan"
  • [d] Or "Lend aid"
  • [e] I.e. YHWH judges
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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