--- title: "Joel 3 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Joel 3 with trapps complete commentary 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/trapps-complete-commentary/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 [Joe 3:1](/kjv/joe/3/1) For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, Ver. 1. **For behold, in those days, and in that time** ] In his *diebus illis ipsis, et in hoc tempore ipso,* in those very selfsame days and in that selfsame time, *sc.* in the time of the Messiah, in the days of the gospel, when God shall deliver Jerusalem and call the remnant of the Gentiles, and so bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, of the whole Israel of God, preaching liberty to the captives, [Isaiah 61:1](/kjv/isaiah/61/1) , and proclaiming the everlasting jubilee, [Job 8:3-6](/kjv/job/8/3-6) . In those happy days, I say, [Jeremiah 23:5-6](/kjv/jeremiah/23/5-6) , woe to the wicked enemies of the Church, it shall go ill with them. They are sure to be broken with a rod of iron, to be dashed in pieces like a potter’s vessel, [Psalms 2:9](/kjv/psalms/2/9) , dashed against Christ the King, who, as he is *piorum rupes,* a rock of refuge to his people, such as was that to Moses, [Exodus 33:22](/kjv/exodus/33/22) , so he is *reorum scopulus,* a rock of revenge to persecutors, to split them to pieces, such a rock as that out of which fire arose, [Judges 6:21](/kjv/judges/6/21) , the fire of God’s jealousy, [Zechariah 1:14](/kjv/zechariah/1/14) , which burneth unto the lowest hell, [Deuteronomy 32:22](/kjv/deuteronomy/32/22) . Let them, therefore, have grace (as the apostle from this ground adviseth,[Heb 12:28-29](/kjv/-heb/12/28-29) ). Let them, at least, have so much wit for themselves as Pilate’s wife had in a dream, to take heed of having anything to do with just men. Let them do as Tertullian counselled Scapula, If thou wilt not spare us, yet spare thyself; if not thyself, yet spare Carthage thy country, which will certainly suffer for thy cruelty to Christians: *si non nobis, tibi; si non tibi, Carthagini parcas.* God will reduce the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, which shall be as a cup of poison to all the people round about, as a burdensome stone, as a hearth of fire, [Zechariah 12:2-3](/kjv/zechariah/12/2-3) ; [Zechariah 12:6](/kjv/zechariah/12/6) ; *See Trapp on "*[Zec 12:2](/kjv/-zec/12/2) *"* *See Trapp on "*[Zec 12:3](/kjv/-zec/12/3) *"* *See Trapp on "*[Zec 12:6](/kjv/-zec/12/6) *"* Their destruction must needs go along with the saints’ salvation,[Php 1:28-29](/kjv/-php/1/28-29) [Isaiah 8:9](/kjv/isaiah/8/9) [Proverbs 11:8](/kjv/proverbs/11/8) . The Jewish doctors collect from this and other like places in the prophets, that when the Messiah cometh, he shall recollect the Jews into the land of Canaan, where they shall get the better of their enemies, and have a most flourishing commonwealth and glorious Church. For this they daily expect the visible appearance of the Messiah, often throwing open their windows to behold, and crying all together to God, Let thy kingdom come, let it come quickly, even in our days, quickly, quickly, quickly (Buxtorf). That he stays so long is for our sins, say they, which are many. *See Trapp on "*[Zec 14:2](/kjv/-zec/14/2) *"* *see Trapp on "*[Zec 14:3](/kjv/-zec/14/3) *"* ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3","name":"Joel 3 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Joel 3 with trapps complete commentary 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","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary","name":"trapps complete commentary"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel","name":"Joel"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/joel/3","name":"3"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```