E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joel 3:5
pleasant things = things of desire, or valuable things. Compare Daniel 11:38 . read more
요엘 3:1-5 Krv
E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joel 3:1
The prophecy of this chapter is one of the most remarkable in the whole Bible; and, for centuries, interpreters have found no agreement in what to make of it. More than 150 years ago, Adam Clarke wrote that, "This is a part of the prophecy which is difficult to understand; all interpreters are at variance upon it,'" himself leaning toward the view that it referred to certain victories or changes in the fortunes of the secular state of Israel. It is our conviction that most of the failure to... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joel 3:2
"I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have parted my land."The valley of Jehoshaphat ..." "This is not to be thought of as a literal place in Palestine, but as an ideal place where judgment is to be executed."[10] This is the same as the place called Armageddon (Revelation 16); and in both cases, it is the place where God will... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joel 3:3
"And have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.There have been many examples of the unconscionable wickedness represented by these examples of it. Significantly, fornication, drunkenness, and human slavery, especially child-abuse, are prominent here; and these are universally the hallmark of evil societies. read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joel 3:4
"Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.The omission of the names of many nations that were just as wicked as these cited has been widely misinterpreted, all kinds of allegations regarding the date of the prophecy being made to turn on the singular mention of just these; but these do not make up any kind of list, being merely... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joel 3:5
"Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things, and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border; behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head; and I will send your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joel 3:1
Joel 3:1. For, behold, in those days, &c.— As the foregoing promise of the Spirit was an assurance to the Jews, that, notwithstanding they might be reduced very low by their enemies, yet they should not be destroyed as a nation till God had accomplished all the great prophesies relating to the Messiah; so he in this chapter assures them of a deliverance from the oppression of their enemies, which they then laboured under; particularly from the Tyrians, Sidonians, Philistines, Egyptians, and... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joel 3:2
Joel 3:2. I will—gather all nations, &c.— It is very evident from the phrase at the close of the verse, Who have parted my land, that all is not to be taken in a very extensive sense. It is to be understood of the neighbouring nations;—All the heathen round about, as in Joel 3:12. In this third and last part of his prophesy, Joel relates what will come to pass in those days, and in that time, when the Lord shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem. He apparently describes the... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joel 3:3
Joel 3:3. And they have cast lots for my people— That is, "They have divided my captive people by lot among themselves, according to the laws of war then in use among mankind." See Nahum 3:10. Obad. Joel 3:11. They have given a boy for a harlot; that is to say, they gave a boy as the price of a harlot; and a girl for wine; that is, as the price of wine. They put both boys and girls to the most infamous uses: the boys to wait on their harlots; the girls to be ruined by their sellers of wine. The... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joel 3:4
coasts = circuit, or region. Palestine = Philistia. render = pay back. Compare Ezekiel 25:15-17 if = though. read more