Joel 3:1-21 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

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 3:18-21

These promises with which this prophecy concludes have their accomplishments in part in the kingdom of grace, and the comforts and graces of all the faithful subjects of that kingdom, but will have their full accomplishment in the kingdom of glory; for, as to the Jewish church, we know not of any event concerning that which answers to the extent of these promises, and what instances of peace and prosperity they were blessed with, which they may be supposed to be a hyperbolical description of,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:1

For, behold, in those days, and at that time ,.... Which Kimchi refers to the times of the Messiah; and is true of the latter times of the Messiah, of his spiritual reign yet to come: when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem : not from the Edomites, Tyrians, and Philistines, that had carried them captive in the times of Ahaz; nor from Babylon, where they had been carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar; for nothing of what is after foretold followed upon the return of... 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

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

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

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 3:18-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 3:1

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

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

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

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