Joel 3:5 NLT

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 3:5

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 3:5

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 3:5

Verse 5 Let us now proceed: He says that their silver and their gold had been taken away by the Syrians and the Sidonians. All who were the neighbors of that people, no doubt, derived gain from their calamity, as is usually the case. They were at first ill disposed towards them; there was then a new temptation; they gaped after booty: and they showed themselves openly their enemies, when they saw that there was hope of gain. Such was the case with the Syrians and Sidonians. There is no doubt,... 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 3:4-8

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:5-6

The prophet proceeds to enumerate the injuries sustained by his people at the hands of their enemies, and the evil attempted against himself. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 3:5

Ye have taken My silver and My gold - Not the silver and gold of the temple, (as some have thought.) At least, up to the prophet’s time, they had not done this. For the inroad of the Philistines in the reign of Jehoram was, apparently, a mere marauding expedition, in which they killed and plundered, but are not said to have besieged or taken any city, much less Jerusalem. God calls “the silver and gold” which He, through His Providence, had bestowed on Judah, “My” gold and silver; as He said by... read more

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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 3:5

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 3:4-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:5-6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 3:5

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