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Verse Joel 3:3. _HAVE GIVEN A BOY FOR A HARLOT_] To such wretched
circumstances were the poor Jews reduced in their captivity, that
their children were sold by their oppressors; and both _males_ and...
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AND THEY HAVE CAST LOTS - They treated God’s people as of no
account, and delighted in showing their contempt toward them. They
chose no one above another, as though all alike were worthless.
“They ca...
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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) _
2. The preceding warfare of the nations and how i...
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YAHWEH WILL RECOMPENSE WITH PUNISHMENT THE NATIONS THAT HAVE OPPRESSED
HIS PEOPLE. In that Day, when Yahweh will restore the fortunes of His
people, He will bring into the Valley of Jehoshaphat all na...
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THEY HAVE, &c. This describes past sufferings. Compare Obadiah 1:16;
Nahum 3:11.
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27....
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The reference is to the custom, common in ancient warfare, by which
the conquerors divided amongst themselves the captives by lot, to deal
with them afterwards as they pleased: and the Jewish prisoner...
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Part II. Chap. Joel 2:18 to Joel 3:21
Jehovah's answer to His people's prayer of penitence. He will remove
from them the plague of locusts, and bestow upon them an abundance of
both material and spir...
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_THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT -- JOEL 3:1-5:_ God promised that at the
end of the captivity that He would make Judah and Jerusalem prosperous
again. Judah was the name that identified the two tribe South...
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AND THEY HAVE CAST LOTS FOR MY PEOPLE— That is, "They have divided
my captive people by lot among themselves, according to the laws of
war then in use among mankind." See Nahum 3:10. Obad. Joel 3:11....
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GOD'S VICTORY OVER THE ENEMIES OF HIS PEOPLE FUTURE BLESSINGS
(cont-'d)
TEXT: Joel 3:1-15
1
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back
the captivity of Judah and Jerusale...
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THE JUDGMENT OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GLORY OF ISRAEL
A general judgment of all nations, for their mistreatment of Israel,
is announced in the valley of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3:1). Tyre, Zidon, and
Philisti...
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THE DAY OF THE LORD
JOEL
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 3
THE *LORD *JUDGES THE NATIONS
V1 ‘One day, at that time, I will make *Judah and Jerusalem great
again.
V2 Then I will bring all the nations together...
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CAST LOTS... — The nations who oppressed and carried away the Jews
treated them as chattels, cast lots for the possession of them as
slaves, and purchased a night’s revelry or other indulgence with th...
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_[Joel 4:3]_ וְ אֶל ־עַמִּ֖י יַדּ֣וּ
גֹורָ֑ל...
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THE JUDGMENT OF THE HEATHEN
Joel 3:1
HITHERTO 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...
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“THE VALLEY OF DECISION”
Joel 2:28-32; Joel 3:1-21
Having stated the outward blessings that would follow repentance, Joel
unveils the extraordinary spiritual blessings that were in store. The
outpour...
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Finally the prophet moved on to a yet higher level, and dealt wholly
with things to come. The great word introducing the section is
"afterward." Some of the things foretold have now been fulfilled, so...
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And they have cast lots for my people; and have (c) given a boy for an
harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
(c) That which the enemy received for the sale of my people, they
besto...
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_Boy, to gratify their brutal passions; (Lamentations v.) or, they
have exchanged such for harlots, (Calmet) and paid the latter with
captive boys. (Septuagint) (Haydock)_...
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Though it may, in a subordinate and secondary sense, be said, that
these blessings to the Church were in a measure given on the
occasional deliverance of Zion from her enemies, when at any time the
Lo...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
"The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like
Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than
Jonah), but differs ess...
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There follows now another indignity still greater; for they cast lot
on God’s people, — _On my people they have cast lot, and
prostituted a boy for a harlot, and a girl have they sold for wine,
that t...
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In Joel 3 the Spirit develops, with more detail, the circumstances of
the last days-those days, in which God would bring back the captives
of Judah and Jerusalem. This epoch precedes the time of peace...
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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 thei...
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And 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.
Ver. 3. _And they have cast lots for my people_] Impiously and
imperiously...
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_They have cast lots for my people_ It was customary with conquerors,
in those days, to divide the captives, taken in war, among themselves
by lot, and so did these enemies of the Jews. _And have give...
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And they have cast lots for My people, after they had taken them
captive, AND HAVE GIVEN A BOY FOR AN HARLOT, namely, as the price for
which they secured the services of a prostitute, AND SOLD A GIRL...
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GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON HIS ENEMIES...
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1-8 The restoration of the Jews, and the final victory of true
religion over all opposers, appear to be here foretold. The contempt
and scorn with which the Jews have often been treated as a people, a...
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It was customary with conquerors to divide the captives by lot, and so
did these enemies of the Jews, OB 11; and so did the Chaldeans on the
captive Ninevites, NAHUM 3:10: though this was grievous, ye...
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Joel 3:3 cast H3032 (H8804) lots H1486 people H5971 given H5414
(H8799) boy H3206 harlot H2181 ...
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THE CONSEQUENCE OF YHWH'S BLESSING OF HIS PEOPLE MUST BE THE JUDGMENT
OF THE NATIONS WHO HAVE OPPRESSED HIS PEOPLE (JOEL 3:1).
The judgment of the locusts has carried Joel's thoughts forward to the
fi...
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CONTENTS: Restoration of Israel, and judgment of all nations in regard
to Israel. Full kingdom blessings under Christ.
CHARACTERS: God, Joel.
CONCLUSION: Though God has suffered the enemies of His pe...
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Joel 3:1. _Behold, in those days,_ in the days of the Messiah, as
stated from the twenty eighth verse of the preseding chapter. Of
course all references in our elder critics, to Cambyses, and to Judas...
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JOEL 3:1 Judgment: The Lord’s Judgment against the Nations and His
Dwelling with His People. The Lord provides reasons for judgment (vv.
Joel 3:1), a description of the climactic judgment on the day o...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 3:3 CAST LOTS FOR MY PEOPLE. In order to take them
away as slaves.
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CRITICAL NOTES.] FOR] Explanatory of judgment predicted (ch. Joel
2:31). THOSE DAYS] Viz. the outpouring of the Spirit, further
described by the words “when I shall bring,” &c., redemption from
distre...
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EXPOSITION
JOEL 3:1
These verses describe the deliverance of God's people and the
destruction of his enemies because of their injurious, insulting, and
ignominious treatment of his people.
JOEL 3:1...
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Now in those days (Joel 3:1),
He goes into chapter 3.
and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and
Jerusalem (Joel 3:1),
That is, in the days--we're getting close now, for...
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2 Chronicles 28:8; 2 Chronicles 28:9; Amos 2:6; Nahum 3:10; Obadiah 1
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Cast lots — It was customary with conquerors to divide the captives
by lot, and so did these enemies of the Jews....