Joel 3:3-13

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

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

Joel 3:3-13

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Joel 3:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOEL 3

Cross References 24

Footnotes 5