Joel 3:10
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:8But if thou wilt go, do [it]; be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy, for there is with God power to help and to cast down.
Micah 4:3And he shall judge among many peoples, and reprove strong nations, even afar off; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Luke 13:12And Jesus, seeing her, called to [her], and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
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 →