요엘 3:2 KRV

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Joel 3:2

(2) The valley of Jehoshaphat.—Some fifty years before Joel prophesied the kingdom of Judah had been menaced by an imposing confederacy of hostile tribes. It was an occasion of great anxiety. A national fast was proclaimed, and after it Jehoshaphat engaged and completely routed the enemy in a valley in the wilderness of Tekoa. (See 2 Chronicles 20:0) The victory was an occasion of immense exultation, and seems to supply the imagery with which Joel describes the day of the Lord. The name of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joel 3:1-21

THE JUDGMENT OF THE HEATHENJoel 3:1-21HITHERTO Joel has spoken no syllable of the heathen, except to pray that God by His plagues will not give Israel to be mocked by them. But in the last chapter of the Book we have Israel’s captivity to the heathen taken for granted, a promise made that it will be removed and their land set free from the foreigner. Certain nations are singled out for judgment, which is described in the terms of Apocalypse; and the Book closes with the vision, already familiar... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Joel 3:1-21

III. THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD: ISRAEL’S ENEMIES JUDGED AND THE KINGDOM ESTABLISHED CHAPTER 3 1. The judgment of the nations (Joel 3:1-8 ) 2. The preceding warfare of the nations and how it ends (Joel 3:9-16 ) 3. Jehovah in the midst of His People (Joel 3:17-21 ) Joel 3:1-8 . The first verse specifies the time when Jehovah will do what He announces in the two verses which follow. It will be in those days, in that time, when the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem is brought back.... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:2

3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the {b} valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(b) It appears that he alludes to the great victory of Jehoshaphat, whom God used without man’s help to destroy the enemies, 2 Chronicles 20:20-26 ; also he is referring to this word Jehoshaphat, which signifies pleading or judgment, because God would judge the... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Joel 3:1-21

JOEL GENERAL OVE RV IEW OF THE BOOK Joel was probably the earliest of the prophets whose writings have descended to us. His personal history is unknown further than the bare statement (1:1). His field of labor was presumably Judah rather than Israel, the southern rather than the northern kingdom, because of allusions to the center of public worship which was at Jerusalem (1:9, 13-14; 2:15), and because of non-allusions to Israel distinctively. Such places as 2:27, and 3:16 are thought to... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Joel 3:1-21

The Valley of Decision Joel 3:0 In the second verse of this chapter the Lord says, "I will plead with them." This would seem to put the Lord into a position of humiliation. He will ask a favour of the heathen; he will say to them, Why do ye persecute my people? will ye not relax your hold? It would be an act of magnanimity on your part, and they would receive the concession with thankful spirits. To "plead" may be regarded as equivalent to entreaty, desiring, persuading, conciliating. It has... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joel 3:1-3

Though it may, in a subordinate and secondary sense, be said, that these blessings to the Church were in a measure given on the occasional deliverance of Zion from her enemies, when at any time the Lord reckoned with her foes: yet, it were sadly to enervate scripture, to suppose that the Holy Ghost pointed to any temporal mercies when speaking of the great day of the Lord. Evidently the days here spoken of were the gospel days, and that time the time of salvation, by the incarnation, death, and... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Joel 3:2

Josaphat, "the judgment of the Lord," (Haydock) marks the place where the Judge will sit, on the east of Jerusalem, between the temple and Olivet, whence our Lord ascended into heaven. (Worthington) --- There also had been seized and treated contumeliously. (Haydock) --- But many of the Fathers assert that the whole world will be the scene of judgment, and the first author who determines the situation of Josaphat, is one in the works of Ven. Bede. Here it may denote the great plain reaching... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:1-8

1-8 The restoration of the Jews, and the final victory of true religion over all opposers, appear to be here foretold. The contempt and scorn with which the Jews have often been treated as a people, and the little value set upon them, are noticed. None ever hardened his heart against God or his church, and prospered long. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joel 3:1-8

God's Judgment upon his Enemies v. 1. For, behold, in those days and in that time, in the Messianic period which had just been described according to its outstanding features, with the Day of Judgment very prominent in the description, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, of the spiritual Israel, by the deliverance through Christ, of which the return of Judah from exile was but a type, v. 2. I will also gather all nations, with the great and mighty heathen nations, ... read more