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Joel 3:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary on Joel 3:1-21

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commentaryMatthew Henry on Joel 3:1-8The 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, and the little value set…Matthew HenrycommentaryThreatenings against Israel's Enemies. (b. c. 720.)THREATENINGS AGAINST ISRAEL'S ENEMIES. (B. C. 720.) We have often heard of the year of the redeemed, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion; now here we have a description of the transactions of that ye…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Joel 3:1-8Deliverance and destruction. The causal particle, with which the first verse of this chapter commences, connects it closely with the preceding. It not only introduces a further explanation, but confirms the statements t…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Joel 3:1-8The persecution of good men. "For, behold, in those days," etc. "In this chapter the prophet returns from the parenthetic view which he had exhibited of the commencement of the Christian dispensation and the overthrow o…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Joel 3:1The time referred to: In those days, and in that time, is the first point to be determined. The reference is obviously to the period spoken of in the twenty-eighth verse of the second chapter, where we read, "And it sha…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Joel 3:1-3These 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.Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Joel 3:1Restoration from captivity. It is believed that Joel was the earliest of the prophets who prophesied in Judah and Jerusalem. If so, it is remarkable how boldly he led the way in the general tone of his declarations and…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Joel 3:2-8Retribution. Joel's prophetic foresight beholds the calamities that are to come upon the Jews, his countrymen. Looking back upon the past, we are able by the records of history to verify the justice of these predictions…Joseph S. Exell and contributors