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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 3:21

I will cleanse... — The LXX. translate this sentence, “I will avenge their blood, and not leave it unavenged” — i.e., the “innocent blood” mentioned in Joel 3:19; but the promise seems rather to indicate, as in the English Version, the extension of God’s pardon to those hitherto unpardoned.

The Lord dwelleth in Zion — i.e., over a raging and swelling world, probably unconscious of Him, the Lord nevertheless reigns in the heavenly Jerusalem, and all His redeemed shall dwell securely under His eternal rule. “And the name of the city from that day shall be Jehovah Shammah, the LORD IS THERE (Ezekiel 48:35).

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See also Joel 3:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joel 3:21. _FOR I WILL CLEANSE THEIR BLOOD_] נקיתי _nikkeythi, I will_ _avenge_ the slaughter and martyrdom of my people, which I have not _yet avenged_. Persecuting _nations_ and persecuting _C...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR I WILL CLEANSE HER BLOOD THAT I HAVE NOT CLEANSED - The word rendered “cleansed” is not used of natural cleansing, nor is the image taken from the cleansing of the body. The word signifies only to...

  • 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

    THE FUTURE FELICITY OF JUDAH CONTRASTED WITH THE DESOLATION OF HER OPPRESSORS. In that golden age when Yahweh shall dwell in Zion miraculous fertility shall transform the land, covering it with vineya...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CLEANSE... CLEANSED. clear... cleared. This could be done only by avenging it; for God will "by no means clear the guilty" (Exodus 34:7; Numbers 14:18); and Egypt, Edom, &c., were guilty (Joel 3:19),...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Part II. Chap. Joel 2:18 to Joel 3:21 Jehovah's answer to His people's prayer of penitence. He will remove from them the plague of locusts, and bestow upon them an abundance of both material and spir...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    AND _I will_ HOLD AS INNOCENT (R.V. _marg_.) _their blood which I have not_ HELD AS INNOCENT] By the desolation of Egypt and Edom, Jehovah will shew openly that the murdered Judahites (Joel 3:19 _b_)...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ENEMY NATIONS FACE PUNISHMENT -- JOEL 3:18-21:_ In Joel three verse eighteen we see figures of (1) fruitful vineyards, (2) cattle and goats tat graze on the hills and produce a lot of milk, and (3) s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR I WILL CLEANSE, &C.—_CLEANSED_— _For I will avenge,_ &c. _avenged._ Houbigant reads, _I will avenge their blood, and not spare; and the Lord shall inhabit Zion._ The reader will see a variety of d...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE (cont-'d) GOD'S PRESENCE AMONG HIS PEOPLE TEXT: Joel 3:16-21 16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth sh...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD FOR I WILL CLEANSE THEIR BLOOD THAT I HAVE NOT CLEANSED - I will purge away from Judah the extreme guilt (represented by "blood...

  • 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

    FOR I WILL CLEANSE, etc.] Either the city will be cleansed from all bloodguiltiness, cp. Ezekiel 22:3.; Isaiah 4:4; Malachi 3:3 or, more probably, we must render, with RM, 'and I will hold as innocent...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Joel 4:21]_ וְ נִקֵּ֖יתִי דָּמָ֣ם לֹֽא ־נִקֵּ֑יתִי...

  • 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

    For I will (n) cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. (n) He had allowed his Church before this to lie in their filthiness, but now he promises to cleanse them...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Which must be supplied in Hebrew. The Idumeans had been spared for a long time. But they shall not escape. (Chaldean, &c.) (Calmet) --- The rites of the law could not purify, as the sacraments of Chri...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I do not presume to say as much, but I venture to believe, that Joel's prophecy in this Chapter is looking so far on, as to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The valley of Jehoshaphat is aga...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! every part of God's word comes in to support the blessed but solemn prophecies contained in this Chapter; when, the Lord shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in al...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _CHRIST IN HIS CHURCH_ ‘For the Lord dwelleth in Zion.’ Joel 3:21 The preceding verses graphically describe the destruction of the enemies of the Church of God. These enemies among the nations are...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The beginning of the verse is in various ways explained. Some make a stop after _cleanse _thus, “I will cleanse, yet their blood I will not cleanse;” as though God had said, that he would forgive heat...

  • 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

    FOR I WILL CLEANSE THEIR BLOOD [WHICH] I HAVE NOT CLEANSED,.... Which some understand, as the Targum, of the Lord's, inflicting further punishments on the, enemies of his people, for shedding their in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. Ver. 21. _For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed_] _i.e._ I will clear their consciences fro...

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

    _I will cleanse their blood_, &c. The word _blood_ seems here to signify pollution in general; and the promise implies, that God would perfectly purge away the guilt and defilement of all the sins of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, namely, through the atonement wrought by the Messiah; FOR THE LORD DWELLETH IN ZION. The entire description clearly does not speak of a mere ea...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEHOVAH THE HOPE OF THE PEOPLE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOR THE LORD DWELLETH IN ZION: Or, Even I the Lord that dwelleth in Zion...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-21 There shall be abundant Divine influences, and the gospel will spread speedily into the remotest corners of the earth. These events are predicted under significant emblems; there is a day comin...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FOR, Heb. _And_. CLEANSE; purge away, both by the Spirit of sanctification, and by free pardon in the blood of the Redeemer; by their sufferings also, by the waters of affliction, as well as by the wa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 3:21 acquit H5352 (H8765) bloodshed H1818 acquitted H5352 (H8765) LORD H3068 dwells H7931 (H8802) Zion...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FINAL SHOWDOWN (JOEL 3:15). Joel closes his prophecy by declaring what YHWH will do for His people as by His mighty roar, and by portentous signs, He demonstrates to the world His watch over them....

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine._ THE GOLDEN AGE I. It will be an age in which great temporal prosperity will be witnessed. “And it shall come to p...

  • 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 3:21 The verse brings together the two primary themes of Joel: judgment on the day of the Lord, and the fact that the Lord DWELLS IN ZION. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. Joel 3:18.] After judgment upon all nations, the land of Jehovah shall overflow with Divine blessings; but the seat of the world will become barren waste. DROP] Poetic for great fertil...

  • 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

    Ezekiel 36:25; Ezekiel 36:29; Ezekiel 48:35; Isaiah 4:4; Joel 3:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And I will cleanse — Purge away both by the spirit of sanctification and by free pardon in the blood of the redeemer. Their blood — Their sinfulness, which before I had not taken away....

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