Valley of Jehoshaphat] an ideal valley in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, called Jehoshaphat from the meaning of the name, 'Jehovah judges.' This prophecy probably occasioned the name (not traced earlier than 300 a.d.) of the modern valley of Jehoshaphat, S. of Jerusalem.
3. Captives of ancient warfare were distributed by lot (Obadiah 1:11; Nahum 3:10) and bartered in connexion with carousals.
Verse Joel 3:2. _THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT_] There is no such valley in the land of Judea; and hence the word must be _symbolical_. It signifies the _judgment of God_, or _Jehovah judgeth_; and may m...
I WILL GATHER ALL NATIONS AND BRING THEM DOWN TO THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT - It may be that the imagery is furnished by that great deliverance which God gave to Jehoshaphat, when “Ammon and Moab and E...
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 ALSO GATHER. Compare Zechariah 14:2. ALL NATIONS. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), App-6, for representatives or people from all nations. THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT. Between...
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...
_I will also gather_ I WILL GATHER: -also" is a misrendering of the Heb. idiom employed (cf. Amos 3:14). _the valley of Jehoshaphat_ as is shewn by the play upon the name, which, both here and in Joel...
_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...
I WILL—GATHER ALL NATIONS, &C.— It is very evident from the phrase at the close of the verse, _Who have parted my land,_ that _all_ is not to be taken in a very extensive sense. It is to be understood...
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...
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the na...
3:2 Jehoshaphat, (h-17) Meaning, 'Jehovah judgeth.'...
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...
THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT. — Some fifty years before Joel prophesied the kingdom of Judah had been menaced by an imposing confederacy of hostile tribes. It was an occasion of great anxiety. A national...
_[Joel 4:2]_ וְ קִבַּצְתִּי֙ אֶת ־כָּל ־הַ...
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...
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the (b) valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among t...
Josaphat, "the judgment of the Lord," (Haydock) marks the place where the Judge will sit, on the east of Jerusalem, between the temple and Olivet, whence our Lord ascended into heaven. (Worthington) -...
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...
We also see that the Prophet Haggai speaks in the same manner of the second temple, — that the glory of the second temple shall be greater than that of the first, (Haggai 2:3) He, however referred, no...
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...
I WILL ALSO GATHER ALL NATIONS,.... Or cause or suffer them to be gathered together against his people; not the Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites, in the times of Jehoshaphat, as Aben Ezra; but either...
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the n...
_For_, &c. This particle shows the connection of this chapter with the latter part of the preceding: as if he had said, As an earnest of the accomplishment of these predictions, my people shall be res...
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON HIS ENEMIES...
I will also gather all nations, with the great and mighty heathen nations, AND WILL BRING THEM DOWN INTO THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT, which is here made the scene of the last great Judgment upon men, AN...
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...
I WILL ALSO GATHER ALL NATIONS: in the type, it is not simply all nations, but all those nations that have with hostile minds oppressed and scattered Judah; in the antitype, it is all nations that hav...
Joel 3:2 gather H6908 (H8765) nations H1471 down H3381 (H8689) Valley H6010 Jehoshaphat H3092 judgment H8199 ...
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 3:2 ALL THE NATIONS. That is, all oppressors of God’s people. VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT refers to a place of final judgment. SCATTERED refers to deportation associated with exile.
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 20:26; Amos 1:11; Ezekiel 25:8; Ezekiel 35:10; Eze
All nations — In the type it is all those nations that have oppressed Judah, in the anti — type, all nations that have been enemies to Christ and the church. Into the valley of Jehoshaphat — I will de...