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Joel 3:4-8

The Phoenicians and Philistines are here singled out as the nations which have sinned especially against Israel: they have not only enriched their own palaces with the plunder of Judah, but have also sold Judahite captives into slavery to the Greeks; a swift and just retribution is accordingly pronounced against them.

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See also Joel 3:4-8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 4. _WHAT HAVE YE TO DO WITH ME_] Why have the _Tyrians_ and _Sidonians_ joined their other enemies to oppress my people? for they who touch my people touch _me_. _WILL YE RENDER ME A RECOMPENSE...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YEA, AND WHAT HAVE YE TO DO WITH ME? - Literally, “and also, what are ye to Me?” The words, “And also,” show that this is something additional to the deeds of those before spoken of. Those, instanced...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    COASTS. circuit, or region. PALESTINE. Philistia. RENDER. pay back. Compare Ezekiel 25:15 IF. though....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YEA, AND WHAT HAVE YE TO DO, &C.— _But what have ye to do,_ &c. After God by the prophet had put them in mind of their injustice and cruelty towards his people, he now comes to inquire into the reason...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 recompence me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence up...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GLORY OF ISRAEL A general judgment of all nations, for their mistreatment of Israel, is announced in the valley of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3:1). Tyre, Zidon, and Philisti...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    COASTS OF PALESTINE] RV 'regions of Philistia?' The question implies a protest against punishment by Tyre, etc. WILL YE RENDER, etc.] RM 'Will ye repay a deed of mine, or will ye do aught unto me? swi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHAT HAVE YE TO DO WITH ME? — Rather, _What are ye to me?_ God, identifying Himself with His people, threatens retaliation upon their enemies for the wrongs they had inflicted upon them. Tyre and Zido...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Joel 4:4]_ וְ֠ גַם מָה ־אַתֶּ֥ם לִי֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Yea, and (d) what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me (e) a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I return your reco...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Me. These cities and nations had rejoiced at the ruin of the Jews, Ezechiel xxv. (Calmet) --- Coast. Septuagint, "Galilee of strangers." (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is observable through the whole of the sacred word, that the day of vengeance, and the year of the Lord's redeemed are always joined. When Jesus comes to save, he comes also to destroy. And when he...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    God expostulates here with Tyre and Sidon, and other neighboring nations, and shows that they vexed his people without cause Had they been provoked some excuse might have been made; but since they mad...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YEA, AND WHAT HAVE YE TO DO WITH ME, O TYRE, AND ZIDON, AND ALL THE COASTS OF PALESTINE?.... The Tyrians, Zidonians, and Philistines, were near neighbours of the Jews, and implacable enemies to them;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 u...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _O Tyre, and Zidon_, &c. “When the Babylonians, the appointed instruments of my vengeance, afflict my land, why do you also, and the bordering nations, assist them? Do you take this occasion of avengi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON HIS ENEMIES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Yea, and what have ye to do with Me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the coasts of Palestine? that is, what object did they have in acting as they did, when not only the capitals of Phoenicia, but also the c...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHAT HAVE YE TO DO WITH ME? what just cause of quarrel have you against me? Have I done you any wrong which now you avenge upon my people? or do you begin to violate the law of neighbourhood and frien...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 3:4 Tyre H6865 Sidon H6721 coasts H1552 Philistia H6429 retaliate H7999 (H8764) H1576 retaliate H1580 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 3:4 TYRE and SIDON were Phoenician cities along the Mediterranean coast. Relations between Israel and Phoenicia were occasionally good. PHILISTIA, on the other hand, was a longtime

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. Joel 3:4. With me] i.e. my people, with whom God identifies himself. RECOMPENSE] “If ye injure me” (my people) “in revenge for fancied wrongs” (Ezekiel 25:15), “I will requite you in...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 21:16; 2 Chronicles 28:17; 2 Chronicles 28:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Yea — Have I done you any wrong, which you avenge upon my people? Or do you begin to violate the laws of neighbourhood and friendship, and think to escape? Do ye think you have to do with a poor oppre...

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