Joel 3:11-12

11 ¹Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your ²mighty ones.

12 Let the nations be aroused And come up to the ³valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to ⁴judge All the surrounding nations.

Joel 3:11-12 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.

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 38:15, 16
• 2. Isaiah 13:3
• 3. Joel 3:2, 14
• 4. Psalms 7:6; Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 3:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "Lend aid"
• [b]. I.e. YHWH judges