Joel 3:4

\2:31\The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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 upon your own head;

In Context

3\2:30\And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

5\2:32\And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

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Cross References

Judges 11:12Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that you have come to make war against my land?

2 Chronicles 28:17For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.

Isaiah 34:8For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.

Jeremiah 47:4Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.

Ezekiel 25:12This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken his payment from the people of Judah, and has done great wrong in taking payment from them;

Joel 2:10The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

Matthew Henry on Joel 3:2-9

Threatenings against Israel's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 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. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 4… Read the whole commentary →

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