Joel 3:2-5

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:2

I will also gather all nations ,.... Or cause or suffer them to be gathered together against his people; not the Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites, in the times of Jehoshaphat, as Aben Ezra; but either the Turks, prophesied of under the name of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel, Ezekiel 38:1 ; and a multitude of other nations with them, who shall be gathered together against the Jews, to regain the land of Judea from them, they will upon their conversion inhabit; or else all the antichristian kings... read more

John Gill

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

And they have cast lots for my people ,.... Not only parted their land, but cast lots for their persons, Or played at dice for them, how many captives each soldier should have, and which should be their share and property: ninety seven thousand Jews, Josephus F4 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3. says, were carried captive by the Romans, who, very probably, cast lots for them, as was usual in such cases; see Nahum 3:10 ; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine,... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:2

The valley of Jehoshaphat - There is no such valley in the land of Judea; and hence the word must be symbolical. It signifies the judgment of God, or Jehovah judgeth; and may mean some place (as Bp. Newcome imagines) where Nebuchadnezzar should gain a great battle, which would utterly discomfit the ancient enemies of the Jews, and resemble the victory which Jehoshaphat gained over the Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites, 2 Chronicles 20:22-26 . And parted my land - The above nations had... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:3

Have given a boy for a harlot - To such wretched circumstances were the poor Jews reduced in their captivity, that their children were sold by their oppressors; and both males and females used for the basest purposes. And they were often bartered for the necessaries or luxuries of life. Or this may refer to the issue of the Chaldean war in Judea, where the captives were divided among the victors. And being set in companies, they cast lots for them: and those to whom they fell sold them for... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:4

What have ye to do with me - Why have the Syrians and Sidonians joined their other enemies to oppress my people? for they who touch my people touch me. Will ye render me a recompense? - Do you think by this to avenge yourselves upon the Almighty? to retaliate upon God! Proceed, and speedily will I return your recompense; I will retaliate. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:5

Ye have taken my silver and my gold - The Chaldeans had spoiled the temple, and carried away the sacred vessels, and put them in the temple of their own god in Babylon. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:2

Verse 2 We also see that the Prophet Haggai speaks in the same manner of the second temple, — that the glory of the second temple shall be greater than that of the first, (Haggai 2:3) He, however referred, no doubt, to the prophecy of Ezekiel; and Ezekiel speaks of the second temple, which was to be built after the return of the people from exile. Be it so, yet Ezekiel did not confine to four or five ages what he said of the second temple: on the contrary he meant that the favor of God would be... read more

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