Joel 3:10

\3:5\For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

In Context

9\3:4\And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

11\3:6\And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:8But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.

Micah 4:3And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.

Luke 13:12And when Jesus saw her, he said to her, Woman, you are made free from your disease.

Matthew Henry on Joel 3:10-18

Threatenings against Israel's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 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 pruning-hooks 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… Read the whole commentary →

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