Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Joel 3:10
I am strong — Put on strength and valour; let none be absent from this war.
I am strong — Put on strength and valour; let none be absent from this war.
BEAT YOUR PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS - Peace had been already promised, as a blessing of the gospel. “In His days,” foretold Solomon, “shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace, so long as the...
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...
A CHALLENGE TO THE NATIONS TO APPEAR IN THE VALLEY OF JUDGMENT TO MEET THEIR DOOM. Returning to the idea of Joel 3:2, Joel represents Yahweh as bidding the heralds make proclamation among the nations,...
BEAT YOUR PLOWSHARES, &c. This precedes the opposite command to be given after this in Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3, when Hosea 2:18 shall be fulfilled. PRUNINGHOOKS: or, scythes....
The nations are to put forth all their strength: the implements of peace are to be transformed into weapons of war; even the weak is to take courage, and feel himself a warrior, "as is wont to happen...
After the digression on the Phoenicians and Philistines (Joel 3:4), the thought of Joel 3:1 is resumed; and the description of the judgement on the nations, announced in Joel 3:2, is continued. The he...
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...
_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...
BEAT YOUR PLOUGH-SHARES INTO SWORDS— He bids them turn all such of their instruments as they used in times of peace, into instruments of war: so Virgil, _———Non ullus aratro Dignus honos: squalent ab...
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...
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. BEAT YOUR PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS. As the foes are desired to "beat their plowshares into swords,...
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...
BEAT YOUR PLOWSHARES... — When the contest was over, and the victory of the Lord achieved, Micah foresaw the reversal of this order: the weapons of offence were once more to resume their peaceful char...
_[Joel 4:10]_ כֹּ֤תּוּ אִתֵּיכֶם֙ לַֽ חֲרָבֹ֔ות וּ...
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...
(g) Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong. (g) When I will execute my judgments against my enemies, I will cause everyone to be ready, a...
I do not presume to say as much, but I venture to believe, that Joel's prophecy in this Chapter is looking so far on, as to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The valley of Jehoshaphat is aga...
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...
He afterwards adds, _Beat your plowshares into swords. _When Isaiah and Micah prophesied of the kingdom of Christ, they said, ‘Beat your swords into pruninghooks, and your spears into plowshares’, (Is...
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...
BEAT YOUR PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS, AND YOUR PRUNING HOOKS INTO SPEARS,.... Let not only soldiers, and such as have been trained up in military discipline, appear in the field on this occasion; but le...
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong. Ver. 10. _Beat your ploughshares into swords_] Come with the best preparation you can make, that...
_Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles_ “God having foretold these judgments against Tyre and Sidon, the Philistines, and the neighbouring nations, who had used the Jews with injustice and cruelty, proc...
JEHOVAH THE HOPE OF THE PEOPLE...
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears, bending every effort toward the winning of their unholy war. LET THE WEAK SAY, I AM STRONG, as when warlike excitement takes hold o...
PRUNINGHOOKS: Or, scythes...
9-17 Here is a challenge to all the enemies of God's people. There is no escaping God's judgments; hardened sinners, in that day of wrath, shall be cut off from all comfort and joy. Most of the proph...
BEAT YOUR PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS: here is a prediction of war, and such as should continue, with some intermissions, through many years; as, on the contrary, when swords were to be beaten into ploug...
Joel 3:10 Beat H3807 (H8798) plowshares H855 swords H2719 hooks H4211 spears H7420 weak H2523 say H559 ...
YHWH CALLS THE NATIONS TO JUDGMENT BEFORE HIM AND HIS MIGHTY ONES (JOEL 3:9). The final day of YHWH is set up and the nations are called for judgment. The nations send out the call because they clearl...
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...
_Prepare war, wake up the mighty men._ THE FINAL BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL I. In this battle evil will gather all its available energies. “Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up...
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 3:10 BEAT YOUR PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS. The warfare preparation is so thorough that agricultural tools must be transformed into weapons. THE WEAK. The great need for soldiers means th...
CRITICAL NOTES. Joel 3:9.] A call to war (Ezekiel 38:7). PREPARE] Lit. sanctify, for heathen war began with religious ceremonies (Jeremiah 6:4; 1 Samue
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...
2 Chronicles 25:8; Isaiah 2:4; Luke 22:36; Micah 4:3; Zechariah 12:8...