Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Joel 3:3
Cast lots — It was customary with conquerors to divide the captives by lot, and so did these enemies of the Jews.
Cast lots — It was customary with conquerors to divide the captives by lot, and so did these enemies of the Jews.
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...
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...
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...
THEY HAVE, &c. This describes past sufferings. Compare Obadiah 1:16; Nahum 3:11. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27....
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 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...
_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...
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....
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...
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. AND THEY HAVE CAST LOTS FOR MY PEOPLE - i:e., divided among themselves my...
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...
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...
_[Joel 4:3]_ וְ אֶל ־עַמִּ֖י יַדּ֣וּ גֹורָ֑ל...
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...
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...
_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)_...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
Joel 3:3 cast H3032 (H8804) lots H1486 people H5971 given H5414 (H8799) boy H3206 harlot H2181 ...
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...
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 3:3 CAST LOTS FOR MY PEOPLE. In order to take them away as slaves. ⇐ ⇔
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...
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 28:8; 2 Chronicles 28:9; Amos 2:6; Nahum 3:10; Obadiah 1