Joel 3:7 - Adam Clarke

Joel 3:7

5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have carried into your temples My¹ prized possessions.

6 Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem
You have sold to the Greeks,
That you may remove them far from their borders.

7 “Behold, ^aI will raise them
Out of the place to which you have sold them,
And will return your¹ retaliation upon your own head.

8 I will sell your sons and your daughters
Into the hand of the people of Judah,
And they will sell them to the ^aSabeans,
To a people ^bfar off;
For the Lord has spoken.”

9 ^aProclaim this among the nations:
“Prepare for war!
Wake up the mighty men,
Let all the men of war draw near,
Let them come up.

10 ^aBeat your plowshares into swords
And your¹ pruning hooks into spears;
^bLet the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”

11 Assemble and come, all you nations,
And gather together all around.
Cause ^aYour mighty ones to go down there, O Lord.

12 “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there I will sit to ^ajudge all the surrounding nations.

13 ^aPut in the sickle, for ^bthe harvest is ripe.
Come, go down;
For the ^cwinepress is full,
The vats overflow—
For their wickedness is great.”

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For ^athe day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

15 The sun and moon will grow dark,
And the stars will diminish their brightness.

16 The Lord also will roar from Zion,
And utter His voice from Jerusalem;
The heavens and earth will shake;
^aBut the Lord will be a shelter for His people,
And the strength of the children of Israel.

17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
Dwelling in Zion My ^aholy mountain.
Then Jerusalem shall be holy,
And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”

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18 And it will come to pass in that day
That the mountains shall drip with new wine,
The hills shall flow with milk,
And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water;
A ^afountain shall flow from the house of the Lord
And water the Valley of¹ Acacias.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Joel 3:7

I will raise them - I shall find means to bring them back from the place whither ye have sold them, and they shall retaliate upon you the injuries they have sustained. It is said that Alexander and his successors set at liberty many Jews that had been sold into Greece. And it is likely that many returned from different lands, on the publication of the edict of Cyrus. - Newcome.

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