Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Joel 3:9
This — These things which I will do to the enemies of God's people. The Gentiles — The Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Grecians successively. Prepare war — Make ready for wars against the enemies of my people.
This — These things which I will do to the enemies of God's people. The Gentiles — The Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Grecians successively. Prepare war — Make ready for wars against the enemies of my people.
Verse 9. _PREPARE WAR_] Let all the enemies of God and of his people join together; let them even call all the tillers of the ground to their assistance, instead of labouring in the field; let every...
PROCLAIM YE THIS AMONG THE GENTILES - God having before said that He would “gather all nations,” now, by a solemn irony, bids them prepare, if, by any means, they can fight against Him. So in Isaiah;...
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,...
PROCLAIM, &c. Compare Isaiah 8:9; Isaiah 8:10; Jeremiah 46:3; Jeremiah 46:4.
_Proclaim ye_ The words are addressed to those whose duty it would be to make such a proclamation (comp. on Amos 3:9), i.e. the heralds, whom the prophet pictures as ready to carry Jehovah's command t...
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...
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...
_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...
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, proce...
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...
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: PROCLAIM YE THIS AMONG THE GENTILES. The nations hostile to Israel are...
3:9 prepare (a-6) Lit. 'hallow,' 'sanctify,' as Jeremiah 6:4 ....
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...
PREPARE WAR... — Literally, _sanctify war._ It was to be taken up deliberately, and after due religious rites, according to the customs of the nations. They are thus challenged, or rather summoned, to...
_[Joel 4:9]_ קִרְאוּ ־זֹאת֙ בַּ † גֹּויִ֔ם קַדְּ
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...
_Prepare. Literally, "sanctify." (Haydock) --- God sends Cambyses to chastise Egypt. His turn will then come._...
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...
Some think these words were announced lest the people, being terrified by their evils, should become wholly dejected; and they elicit this meaning, — that God placed this dreadful spectacle of evils b...
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...
PROCLAIM YE THIS AMONG THE GENTILES,.... This decree of God, concerning the deliverance of his church; and the destruction of their enemies; which is to be proclaimed among them, to the terror of them...
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Ver. 9. _Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles_] _Oratio tota est figurata,...
_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...
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles, as they made ready to wage war against the Lord's people. PREPARE WAR, consecrate the undertaking by means of sacrifices, WAKE UP THE MIGHTY MEN, let them arouse t...
PREPARE: _ Heb._ sanctify...
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...
PROCLAIM; publish, or make known, as by sound of trumpet: some say it is an irony; I rather think it is a declaration of what is to come to pass through some ages before the coming of the Messiah, as...
Joel 3:9 Proclaim H7121 (H8798) nations H1471 Prepare H6942 (H8761) war H4421 up H5782 (H8685) men...
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...
PREPARE WAR Verses 9-14 (Joel 3:9) refer to Armageddon; verses 15, 16 (Joel 3:15) are parallel with (Joel 2:30). From verses 9 to 16 (Joel 3:9), we ha
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 3:9 CONSECRATE. The NATIONS are told to spiritually prepare themselves for WAR, unaware that the Lord of heaven and earth is their opponent....
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...
Ezekiel 21:21; Ezekiel 21:22; Ezekiel 38:7; Isaiah 34:1; Isaiah 8:10;