요엘 3:4-14 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 3:1-8

We have often heard of the year of the redeemed, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion; now here we have a description of the transactions of that year, and a prophecy of what shall be done when it comes, whenever it comes, for it comes often, and at the end of time it will come once for all. I. It shall be the year of the redeemed, for God will bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, Joel 3:1. Though the bondage of God's people may be grievous and very long, yet it... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 3:9-17

What the psalmist had long before ordered to be said among the heathen (Ps. 96:10) the prophet here will have in like manner to be published to all nations, That the Lord reigns, and that he comes, he comes to judge the earth, as he had long been judging in the earth. The notice here given of God's judging the nations may have reference to the destruction of Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus, and to the Antichrist especially, and all the proud enemies of the Christian church; but some of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:4

Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine ?.... The Tyrians, Zidonians, and Philistines, were near neighbours of the Jews, and implacable enemies to them; and are here put for the enemies of the true church of Christ, the Papists and Turks, and in whose possession those places now are: these are addressed by the Lord, inquiring or demanding the reason of their ill usage of him and his people: "what have ye to do with me?" to be called by my name,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:5

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold ,.... Which is all the Lord's, Haggai 2:8 ; or which he had bestowed upon his people, and they had taken from them: and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things ; either the rich furniture of the houses of his people, which they carried into their own houses, or "palaces" F5 להיכליכם "in palatia vestra", Montanus, Drusius, Burkius. , as it may be rendered; having either taken them away themselves, or bought them of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:6

The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem ,.... Not children in age literally, as Kimchi, kidnapped or bought by the Tyrians; but the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem: have ye sold unto the Grecians ; or sons of Javan; it was one part of the merchandise of Tyre to trade in the persons of men; and Javan, or the Greeks, with others, were their merchants for them, Ezekiel 27:13 ; and the souls of men are a part of the trade of the merchants of Rome, typified by the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:7

Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them ,.... That is, bring them back to their own land, from their places whither they have been carried captive, and where they have dwelt in obscurity, and as if theft had been buried in graves, but now should be raised up and restored; and this their restoration will be as life from the dead. So the Targum, "behold, I will bring them publicly from the place whither ye have sold them;' this is to be understood, not of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:8

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah ,.... That is, deliver them into their hands, to dispose of them; this is thought to have been literally fulfilled in the Tyrians, when thirty thousand F7 Arriam. de Exped. Alexand. l. 2. c. 24. of them were sold for slaves, upon the taking of their city by Alexander, who put some of them into the hands of the Jews, they being in friendship with him: it mystically designs the power that the Jewish... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:9

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles ,.... This decree of God, concerning the deliverance of his church; and the destruction of their enemies; which is to be proclaimed among them, to the terror of them, and the comfort of God's people, encouraging them to the battle, since they might be sure of victory; for the prophet here returns to give an account of the armies to be gathered together, and to be destroyed in the valley of Jehoshaphat, as appears from Joel 3:12 ; and to this end heralds... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:10

Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears ,.... Let not only soldiers, and such as have been trained up in military discipline, appear in the field on this occasion; but let husbandmen and vinedressers leave their fields and vineyards, and turn their instruments of husbandry and vinedressing into weapons of war; let them not plead want of armour, but convert these to such uses: on the contrary, when this battle will be over, swords shall be beaten into... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:11

Assemble yourselves ,.... From divers parts into one place: "be ye gathered"; or "gather yourselves together", as the Targum and Kimchi; get together in a body, muster up all the forces you can collect together, Jarchi, from Menachem, by the change of a letter, renders it, "make ye haste"; lose time in preparing for this battle; get men, and arms for them, as fast as you can; be as expeditious as possible: and come, all ye Heathen ; antichristian nations, Mahometan or Papal; which... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 3:1-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 3:9-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:11

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