--- title: "Joel 3 - Study King James Bible with the biblical illustrator" description: "Read Joel 3 with the biblical illustrator commentary. 1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-biblical-illustrator/joel/3" --- [ Read](/kjv/joel/3)[ Commentary](/study/joel/3)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/joel/3) Audio 1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 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 nations, and parted my land. 3 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. 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly *and* speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:* 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.* 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken *it*. 9 ¶ 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:* 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I *am* strong.* 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.* 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness *is* great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD *is* near in the valley of decision.* 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD *will be* the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.* 17 So shall ye know that I *am* the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.* 18 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, *that* the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.* 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence *against* the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.* 21 For I will cleanse their blood *that* I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.* [Joel 2](/study/joel/2) [Amos 1](/study/amos/1) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Joel 3:1](/kjv/joel/3/1) *For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.* **The year of recompense** ** I.**It shall be the year of the redeemed. Though the bondage of God’s people may be grievous and long, it shall not be everlasting. That in Egypt ended at length in their deliverance into the glorious liberty of the children of God. That in Babylon shall likewise end well. ** II.**It shall be the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. Though God may suffer the enemies of His people to prevail against them very far, and for a long time, yet He will call them to an account for it, and will lead those captive that led His people captive. **1.**Who those are that shall be reckoned with. “All nations.” This intimates-- **(1**) That all the nations had made themselves liable to the judgment of God for wrong done to His people. But the neighbouring nations should be particularly dealt with. **(2**) That whatsoever nation injured God’s nation, they should not go unpunished. Little persecutors shall be taken account of as well as great ones. **2.**The sitting of this court for judgment. **3.**The plaintiff called, on whose behalf this prosecution is set on foot. **4.**The charge exhibited against them, which is very particular. **(1**) They had been very abusive to the children of Israel. **(2**) They had unjustly seized God’s silver and gold. **5.**The sentence passed upon them. “Return your recompence upon your own head.” **(1**) They shall not gain their end in the mischief they designed. **(2**) They shall be paid in their own coin. (*Matthew Henry.*) **The persecution of good men** ** I.**There have ever been good men on earth. **1.**“My people.” They are His-- **(1**) They have surrendered themselves to His will. **(2**) He has pledged them His loving guardianship. **2.**“My heritage” ([Exodus 19:5](/kjv/exodus/19/5)). He who owns the universe, esteems holy souls as the most valuable of His possessions. ** II.**These good men on earth have generally been subject to persecution. “Whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.” There is a persecution that, whilst it does not involve bonds, imprisonments, and physical violences, involves the malice of hell, and inflicts grievous injury. There is social calumny, scorn, degradation, and various disabilities. ** III.**Their persecution will be avenged by heaven. “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.” Ah! the time hastens when persecutors of all types and ages will have full retribution dealt out to them in some great valley of Jehoshaphat. 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