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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

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:3

They have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink . Such was the contumely with which they were treated at the time of the great catastrophe referred to. The captives were distributed by lot among the conquerors; these in turn sold them to the slave-dealers for the merest trifle—a slave-boy for the hire of a harlot, or a slave-girl for a glass or draught of wine. Such treatment had been predicted ages before, and was... read more

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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

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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

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:7

Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them . Instead of "raise," some prefer "waken," "rouse," or "stir up." The Judaeans would be roused out of the countries into which they had been sold, and restored to their own land, and the measure which had been meted to them meted in turn to their enemies. The deliverance mentioned here may be exemplified, if not realized in part, in the time of Alexander the Great and his successors, when Jewish captives in many lands were... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:7-8

In these verses we have the recompense of reward so deservedly dealt out to the enemies of Israel. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:8

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off. The Hebrew expression does not mean "to sell by the hand of," as it is erroneously rendered by some; but "to sell into the hand," that is, to deliver over into the power of the children of Judah. The Sabeans were the inhabitants of Sheba, in Arabia Felix, a people actively engaged in trade, and related to the Pales-tinians in the south, as the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:9

pictures the proclamation and other preliminaries of war. Heralds are sent out to make proclamation among the nations. Prepare (margin, sanctify ) war . Certain formalities of a religious nature were customary among the heathen when war was proclaimed and prepared for. Thus also among the Jews supplication was made and sacrifices offered, as we read in 1 Samuel 7:8 , 1 Samuel 7:9 , that before the battle with the Philistines at Mizpeh, the people urged Samuel to make earnest... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 3:9-13

War and judgment. This is truly prophetic language; for the writer is not merely relating historical facts, or foretelling future events; he is uttering great moral and religions principles. The form these utterances assume is determined by the circumstances of Judah in the time of the prophet; but the truth enunciated is one which is universal and all-important. I. A PICTURE OF WAR . 1 . The vastness of the scale upon which it is conducted appears from the language employed... read more

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