Joel 3:4 NIV

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 3:4

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

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:4

Verse 4 God expostulates here with Tyre and Sidon, and other neighboring nations, and shows that they vexed his people without cause Had they been provoked some excuse might have been made; but since they made war of their own accord, the wrong was doubled. This is what God means these words. What have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Sidon? He indeed continues the subject before explained: but he speaks of the concern here as hid own; he seems not now to undertake the protection of his own people,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:1-8

Deliverance and destruction. The causal particle, with which the first verse of this chapter commences, connects it closely with the preceding. It not only introduces a further explanation, but confirms the statements there made. The course of the predictions contained in the foregoing chapter embraced the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost; the establishment of the Christian Church; the great catastrophes and troubles that should succeed; the destruction of the holy city and the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:1-8

The persecution of good men. "For, behold, in those days," etc. "In this chapter the prophet returns from the parenthetic view which he had exhibited of the commencement of the Christian dispensation and the overthrow of the Jewish polity, to deliver predictions respecting events that were to transpire subsequent to the Babylonish captivity, and fill up the space which should intervene between the restoration of the Jews and the first advent of Christ. He announces the judgment to be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:2-8

Retribution. Joel's prophetic foresight beholds the calamities that are to come upon the Jews, his countrymen. Looking back upon the past, we are able by the records of history to verify the justice of these predictions. The transportations into the East, the oppression under Antiochus, the dispersion by the Romans,—these awful events in Hebrew history rise before our view. But where shall we look for a fulfilment of the predictions of vengeance and of retribution? Surely God in his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:4

The northern sea-board of the Phoenicians, including the famous cities of Tyre and Sidon, also the southern sea-coast and plain of the Philistines, with their five principalities, are joined by vegam with the nations notorious for injuring and oppressing the people of God. The words rendered in the Authorized Version, What have ye to do with me? rather mean, What would ye with me? or still better, What are ye to me ? that is. how worthless and despicable in my sight! The disjunctive... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:4-8

In these verses the prophet pauses before proceeding to describe the final judgment of the world-powers for their hostility to and oppression of his Church, and points out the bitter enmity of neigh-bouring nations to the covenant people in the prophet's own day, with a prediction of the righteous retribution that awaited them. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 3:4

Yea, and what have ye to do with Me? - Literally, “and also, what are ye to Me?” The words, “And also,” show that this is something additional to the deeds of those before spoken of. Those, instanced before, were great oppressors, such as dispersed the former people of God and “divided their land.” In addition to these, God condemns here another class, those who, without having power to destroy, harass and vex His heritage. The words, “what are ye to Me?” are like that other phrase, “what is... read more

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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:2-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:4-8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 3:4

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