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Joel 3:7-17

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7 behold, I am going to 1arouse them from the place where * you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head.
8 "Also I will 2sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the 3Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.
9 4Proclaim this among the nations: 5Prepare a war; 6rouse the mighty men! Let all the soldiers * draw near, let them come up!
10 7Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; 8Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."
11 9Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your 10mighty ones.
12 Let the nations be aroused And come up to the 11valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to 12judge All the surrounding nations.
13 13Put in the sickle, for the 14harvest is ripe. Come, 15tread, for the 16wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their 17wickedness is great.
14 18Multitudes, multitudes in the 19valley of decision! For the 20day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The 21sun and moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.
16 The LORD 22roars from Zion And 23utters His voice from Jerusalem, And the 24heavens and the earth tremble. But the LORD is a 25refuge for His people And a 26stronghold to the sons of Israel.
17 Then you will 27know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion, My 28holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be 29holy, And 30strangers will pass through it no more.
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Joel 3:7-17 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 30

  • 1. Isaiah 43:5, 6; Jeremiah 23:8; Zechariah 9:13
  • 2. Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 60:14
  • 3. Job 1:15; Psalms 72:10; Ezekiel 38:13
  • 4. Jeremiah 51:27
  • 5. Jeremiah 6:4; Ezekiel 38:7; Micah 3:5
  • 6. Isaiah 8:9, 10; Jeremiah 46:3, 4; Zechariah 14:2, 3
  • 7. Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3
  • 8. Zechariah 12:8
  • 9. Ezekiel 38:15, 16
  • 10. Isaiah 13:3
  • 11. Joel 3:2, 14
  • 12. Psalms 7:6; Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 3:13
  • 13. Revelation 14:14-19
  • 14. Jeremiah 51:33; Hosea 6:11
  • 15. Revelation 14:19, 20; Revelation 19:15
  • 16. Isaiah 63:3; Lamentations 1:15
  • 17. Genesis 18:20
  • 18. Isaiah 34:2-8
  • 19. Joel 3:2, 12
  • 20. Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1, 11, 31
  • 21. Joel 2:10, 31
  • 22. Hosea 11:10; Amos 1:2
  • 23. Joel 2:11
  • 24. Ezekiel 38:19; Joel 2:10; Haggai 2:6
  • 25. Psalms 61:3; Isaiah 33:16; Jeremiah 17:17
  • 26. Jeremiah 16:19; Nahum 1:7
  • 27. Joel 2:27
  • 28. Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 56:7; Ezekiel 20:40
  • 29. Isaiah 4:3; Obadiah 17
  • 30. Isaiah 52:1; Nahum 1:15

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