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Joel 3:4-8

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4 "Moreover, what are you to Me, O 1Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of 2Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will 3return your recompense on your head.
5 "Since you have 4taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,
6 and sold the 5sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,
7 behold, I am going to 6arouse them from the place where * you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head.
8 "Also I will 7sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the 8Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.
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Joel 3:4-8 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 8

  • 1. Isaiah 23:1-18; Amos 1:9, 10; Zechariah 9:2-4; Matthew 11:21, 22; Luke 10:13, 14
  • 2. Isaiah 14:29-31; Jeremiah 47:1-7; Ezekiel 25:15-17; Amos 1:6-8; Zechariah 9:5-7
  • 3. Isaiah 34:8; Isaiah 59:18
  • 4. 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Chronicles 21:16, 17
  • 5. Ezekiel 27:13
  • 6. Isaiah 43:5, 6; Jeremiah 23:8; Zechariah 9:13
  • 7. Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 60:14
  • 8. Job 1:15; Psalms 72:10; Ezekiel 38:13

Footnotes 2

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