Joel 3:7-8 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 3:7

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:7

I will raise them - I shall find means to bring them back from the place whither ye have sold them, and they shall retaliate upon you the injuries they have sustained. It is said that Alexander and his successors set at liberty many Jews that had been sold into Greece. And it is likely that many returned from different lands, on the publication of the edict of Cyrus. - Newcome. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:8

I will sell your sons - When Alexander took Tyre, he reduced into slavery all the lower people, and the women. Arrian, lib. ii., says that thirty thousand of them were sold. Artaxerxes Ochus destroyed Sidon, and subdued the other cities of Phoenicia. In all these wars, says Calmet, the Jews, who obeyed the Persians, did not neglect to purchase Phoenician slaves, whom they sold again to the Sabeans, or Arabs. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:7

Verse 7 The Prophet declares here more fully and expressly, that God had not so deserted the Jews, but that he intended, in course of time, to stretch forth his hand to them again. It was indeed a temporary desertion: but it behaved the faithful in the meantime to rely on this assurance, — that God purposed again to restore his people: and of this the Prophet now speaks, Behold, he says, I will raise them from the place unto which ye have sold them; as though he said “Neither distance of place,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:8

Verse 8 The Prophet describes here a wonderful change: the Syrians and Sidonians did sell the Jews; but who is to be the seller now? God himself will take this office, —I, he says, will sell your children, as though he said, “The Jews shall subdue you and reduce you to bondage,” — by whose authority? “It shall be, as if they bought you at my hands.” He means that this servitude would be legitimate; and thus he makes the Jews to be different from the Syrians and Sidonians, who had been violent... 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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:2-8

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