Joel 3:2

I will gather all the nations, 1 and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. 1 I will judge them there, 1 because of my people and my inheritance Israel, 1 whom they scattered among the nations, 1 and because they divided up my land. 1

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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.

In Context

1Behold, in those days and at that time, 1 when I return the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem, 1

3They cast lots for my people, 1 traded a boy for a prostitute, 1 and sold a girl for wine 1 so they could drink. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:26On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berakah. There they praised Yahweh, so the name of that place is the “Valley of Berakah” to this day.

Jeremiah 12:14Yahweh says this against all my neighbors, the wicked ones who strike at the possession that I made my people Israel inherit, “See, I am the one who is about to uproot them from their own ground, and I will pull up the house of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 49:1About the people of Ammon, Yahweh says this, 1 “Does Israel have no children? Is there no one to inherit anything in Israel? 1 Why does Molech occupy Gad, and his people live in its cities? + 49:1 Instead of Molech , some modern versions have their king . 1

Ezekiel 35:10You have said, “These two nations and these two lands will become mine, and we will possess them,” even when Yahweh was present with them.

Ezekiel 38:22Then I will judge him by plague and blood; and overflowing rain and hailstones and burning sulfur I will rain down upon him and his troops and the many nations that are with him.

Joel 3:12Let the nations wake themselves up 1 and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. 1 For there will I sit to judge 1 all the surrounding nations. 1

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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