Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
Behold, I will raise them - i:e., I will rouse them. Neither sea nor distance will prevent my bringing them back. Alexander, and his successors, restored to liberty many Jews in bondage in Greece (Josephus, 13: 5; 'Bellum Judaicum,' 3: 9, 2).
Verse 7. _I WILL RAISE THEM_] I shall find means to bring them back from _the place whither ye have sold them_, and they shall retaliate upon you the injuries they have sustained. It is said that Alex...
BEHOLD I WILL RAISE THEM - If this promise relates to the same individuals who had been sold, it must have been fulfilled silently; as indeed the return of captives to their own land, unless brought a...
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...
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...
I WILL RAISE, &c. Compare Isaiah 43:5; Isaiah 43:6, with Joe 49:12.Jeremiah 23:8....
_Behold, I_ AM STIRRING _them_ UP] i.e. arousing them into activity (Isaiah 13:17; Jeremiah 50:9, R.V.: Isaiah 41:2; Isaiah 41:25;
The Phoenicians and Philistines are here singled out as the nations which have sinned especially against Israel: they have not only enriched their own palaces with the plunder of Judah, but have also...
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...
The punishment, awarded according to the _Lex talionis_....
_RECOMPENSE UPON THE NATIONS -- JOEL 3:6-11:_ These nations kidnapped the young people of Jerusalem from their land and sold them as slaves to the Greeks. God promised that He would now grant freedom...
OUT OF THE PLACE WHITHER, &C.— It is said in the preceding verse, that the Jews were sold to the Grecians. Therefore this _place_ is to be understood principally of Greece; whence the Jews should hast...
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...
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...
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...
_[Joel 4:7]_ הִנְנִ֣י מְעִירָ֔ם מִן ־הַ֨ מָּקֹ֔ום...
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...
“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...
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...
_Them, particularly under Hystaspes and Artaxerxes._...
It is observable through the whole of the sacred word, that the day of vengeance, and the year of the Lord's redeemed are always joined. When Jesus comes to save, he comes also to destroy. And when he...
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...
The Prophet declares here more fully and expressly, that God had not so deserted the Jews, but that he intended, in course of time, to stretch forth his hand to them again. It was indeed a temporary d...
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...
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 dwel...
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: Ver. 7. _Behold, I will raise them out of the place, &c._] Seem it never so i...
_Behold, I will raise them_, &c. I will restore them, or their posterity, out of their several captivities whither their enemies have dispersed them. Grotius on this place mentions, that Alexander and...
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, delivering them from the masters to whom they had been sold, AND WILL RETURN YOUR RECOMPENSE UPON YOUR OWN HEAD, so that their rev...
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON HIS ENEMIES...
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...
BEHOLD; observe it well, for as it will be strange when done, so it shall certainly be done, to your joy, O my people, and to the astonishment of your enemies. I WILL RAISE THEM; awaken and raise them...
Joel 3:7 raise H5782 (H8688) place H4725 sold H4376 (H8804) return H7725 (H8689) retaliation H1576 head...
‘Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, And will return your recompense on your own head, And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children o...
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...
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...
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...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 3:7 STIR THEM UP. The enslaved will become the enslavers. Sidon was destroyed by Artaxerxes III in 343 B.C., and Tyre was defeated by Alexander the Great in 332. SABEANS. Most commen...
CRITICAL NOTES. Joel 3:4. With me] i.e. my people, with whom God identifies himself. RECOMPENSE] “If ye injure me” (my people) “in revenge for fancied wrongs” (Ezekiel 25:15), “I will requite you in...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 15:33; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Esther 7:10; Ezekiel 34:12;...
I will raise them — This was fulfilled when Alexander, and his successors dismissed all the Jews that were slaves in Greece, and gave them leave to return to their own country....