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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joel 3:1-21

THE JUDGMENT OF THE HEATHENJoel 3:1-21HITHERTO Joel has spoken no syllable of the heathen, except to pray that God by His plagues will not give Israel to be mocked by them. But in the last chapter of the Book we have Israel’s captivity to the heathen taken for granted, a promise made that it will be removed and their land set free from the foreigner. Certain nations are singled out for judgment, which is described in the terms of Apocalypse; and the Book closes with the vision, already familiar... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Joel 3:1-21

III. THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD: ISRAEL’S ENEMIES JUDGED AND THE KINGDOM ESTABLISHED CHAPTER 3 1. The judgment of the nations (Joel 3:1-8 ) 2. The preceding warfare of the nations and how it ends (Joel 3:9-16 ) 3. Jehovah in the midst of His People (Joel 3:17-21 ) Joel 3:1-8 . The first verse specifies the time when Jehovah will do what He announces in the two verses which follow. It will be in those days, in that time, when the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem is brought back.... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:13

3:13 Put ye in the {h} sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.(h) In this way he will encourage the enemies when their wickedness is completely ripe to destroy one another, which he calls the valley of God’s judgment. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:16

3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD [will be] the {i} hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.(i) God assures his own against all trouble, that when he destroys his enemies, his children will be delivered. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:17

3:17 So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass {k} through her any more.(k) The strangers will no longer destroy his Church: and if they do, it is the fault of the people, who by their sins make the breach for the enemy. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:18

3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the mountains shall {l} drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.(l) He promises to his Church abundance of graces, see Geneva "Ezekiel 47:1", which would water and comfort the most barren places; Amos 9:13 . read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:19

3:19 {m} Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.(m) The malicious enemies will have no part of these graces. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:21

3:21 For I will {n} cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.(n) He had allowed his Church before this to lie in their filthiness, but now he promises to cleanse them and to make them pure unto himself. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Joel 3:1-21

JOEL GENERAL OVE RV IEW OF THE BOOK Joel was probably the earliest of the prophets whose writings have descended to us. His personal history is unknown further than the bare statement (1:1). His field of labor was presumably Judah rather than Israel, the southern rather than the northern kingdom, because of allusions to the center of public worship which was at Jerusalem (1:9, 13-14; 2:15), and because of non-allusions to Israel distinctively. Such places as 2:27, and 3:16 are thought to... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Joel 3:1-21

The Valley of Decision Joel 3:0 In the second verse of this chapter the Lord says, "I will plead with them." This would seem to put the Lord into a position of humiliation. He will ask a favour of the heathen; he will say to them, Why do ye persecute my people? will ye not relax your hold? It would be an act of magnanimity on your part, and they would receive the concession with thankful spirits. To "plead" may be regarded as equivalent to entreaty, desiring, persuading, conciliating. It has... read more

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joel 3:1-21

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Joel 3:1-21

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:13

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:16

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:17

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:18

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:19

Geneva Study Bible - Joel 3:21

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Joel 3:1-21

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Joel 3:1-21

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