Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Joel 3:5
Taken — Either as part of the spoil, or as part of your pay. My silver — Silver and gold vessels dedicated to my service.
Taken — Either as part of the spoil, or as part of your pay. My silver — Silver and gold vessels dedicated to my service.
Verse 5. _YE HAVE TAKEN MY SILVER AND MY GOLD_] The Chaldeans had spoiled the temple, and carried away the _sacred vessels_, and put them in the temple of their own god in Babylon....
YE HAVE TAKEN MY SILVER AND MY GOLD - Not the silver and gold of the temple, (as some have thought.) At least, up to the prophet’s time, they had not done this. For the inroad of the Philistines in th...
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...
PLEASANT THINGS. things of desire, or valuable things. Compare Daniel 11:38....
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...
_my silver and my gold_ not necessarily the silver and the gold in the Temple (1 Kings 14:26; 2 Kings 14:14), but more generally what belonged to Jehovah, or His people, whether in the Temple, or in t...
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...
_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...
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...
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: BECAUSE YE HAVE TAKEN MY SILVER AND MY GOLD - i:e., the gold and silver of my people. The...
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...
MY SILVER, etc.] not necessarily from the Temple, but the property of the people was reckoned as Jehovah's. TEMPLES] i.e. palaces, the dwellings of the rich. 6. The Phœnicians (Tyre and Zidon) were fa...
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...
MY SILVER. — Mine, as being the property of my people, not as being dedicated to the service of the Temple. In the time of Jehoram, the Philistines and others had “carried away all the substance that...
_[Joel 4:5]_ אֲשֶׁר ־כַּסְפִּ֥י וּ זְהָבִ֖י לְקַחְתֶּ֑ם...
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...
_Temples, or palaces. The Chaldeans had done so, and perhaps had sold some to others._...
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...
Let us now proceed: He says that their _silver _and their _gold _had been taken away by the Syrians and the Sidonians. All who were the neighbors of that people, no doubt, derived gain from their cala...
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...
BECAUSE YE HAVE TAKEN MY SILVER AND MY GOLD,.... Which is all the Lord's, Haggai 2:8; or which he had bestowed upon his people, and they had taken from them: AND HAVE CARRIED INTO YOUR TEMPLES MY GOO...
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: Ver. 5. _Because ye have taken my silver, &c._] Sacrilege is a second sin they here stand ch...
_Because ye have taken my silver and my gold_ Have taken out of my temple the silver and golden vessels dedicated to my service; _and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things_ Hebrew,...
because ye have taken My silver and My gold, in the Temple-treasures and throughout the city of Jerusalem, AND HAVE CARRIED INTO YOUR TEMPLES, including also the palaces of their rulers, MY GOODLY, PL...
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON HIS ENEMIES...
PLEASANT THINGS: _ Heb._ desireable...
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...
YE HAVE TAKEN; you Tyrians, Zidonians, and Philistines have received at the hands of those you confederated with, you have taken them either as part of the spoil, or as part of your pay. MY SILVER AND...
Joel 3:5 taken H3947 (H8804) silver H3701 gold H2091 carried H935 (H8689) temples H1964 prized H2896 possessions...
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...
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 5:2; 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 16:8; 2 Kings 18:15; 2 Kings 1