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Joel 3:2 KJV
Joel · chapter 3 · verse 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.Joel 3:2 · King James Version
Joel 3:2 in context
1For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2I 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.
3And 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.
4Yea, 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;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JehoshaphatYᵉhôwshâphâṭJehoshaphat, the name of six IsraelitesH3092 →
- scatteredpâzarto scatter, whether in enmity or bountyH6340 →
- heritagenachălâhproperly, something inheritedH5159 →
- nationsgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- gatherqâbatsto graspH6908 →
- valleyʻêmeqa valeH6010 →
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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 year, and a prophecy of what shall be done when it comes, whenever it comes, for it comes often, and at the end of time it will come once for all. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8