Joel 3:12-21

12 “Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.

13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow— so great is their wickedness!”

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

15 The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.

16 The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

Blessings for God’s People

17 “Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.

18 “In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the LORD’s house and will water the valley of acacias.^[a]

19 But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

20 Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations.

21 Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged? No, I will not.” The LORD dwells in Zion!

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Joel 3:12-21 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 34

1. S ver 2
2. S Psalms 82:1; S Isaiah 2:4
3. Mark 4:29
4. S Isaiah 17:5; S Hosea 6:11; Matthew 13:39; Revelation 14:15-19
5. S Jeremiah 25:30
6. S Judges 6:11; S Revelation 14:20
7. Isaiah 13:4
8. S Isaiah 22:1
9. Isaiah 34:2-8; S Joel 1:15; S Zephaniah 1:7
10. S Isaiah 2:4; S Ezekiel 36:5
11. S Job 9:7; S Ezekiel 32:7
12. S Isaiah 42:13
13. Amos 1:2
14. S Judges 5:4; S Isaiah 14:16; S Ezekiel 38:19
15. S Psalms 46:1; S Isaiah 25:4; Zechariah 12:8
16. S 2 Samuel 22:3; Jeremiah 16:19; Zechariah 9:12
17. S Exodus 6:7
18. S Joel 2:27
19. S Psalms 74:2; S Isaiah 4:3
20. Psalms 2:6; S Isaiah 2:2; S Ezekiel 17:22
21. S Jeremiah 31:40
22. S Isaiah 52:1; S Ezekiel 44:9; Zechariah 9:8
23. S Joel 2:24
24. Exodus 3:8; S Song of Songs 5:1
25. S Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 35:6; S Isaiah 44:3
26. Revelation 22:1-2
27. S Numbers 25:1; S Isaiah 25:6; S Jeremiah 31:12; S Ezekiel 47:1; Amos 9:13
28. S Isaiah 19:1
29. S Isaiah 11:14; S Isaiah 34:11
30. S Jeremiah 51:35; Obadiah 1:10
31. S Ezra 9:12; Amos 9:15
32. S Isaiah 1:15
33. S Ezekiel 36:25
34. S Psalms 74:2; Isaiah 59:20; S Ezekiel 48:35; Zechariah 8:3

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or "Valley of Shittim"