Joel 3:10

Beat ye together your plows + 3:10 In other writings, John Wycliffe renders this word in this verse as ‘plowghschares’ (‘ploughshares’/‘plowshares’). into swords, and your mattocks, either pickaxes, into spears; a feeble man say, that I am strong, (or let the weak say, I am strong).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Cry ye this thing among heathen men, hallow ye battle (or prepare ye for battle), raise ye (up) strong men; all men warriors, nigheth, and goeth up.

11All folks, break ye out, and come from compass (about), and be ye gathered together; there the Lord shall make thy strong men to die. (All the nations, break ye out, and come from all around, and be ye gathered together; and there the Lord shall make thy strong men to die.)

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:8for if thou guessest that battles stand in the might of an host, the Lord shall make thee to be overcome of thine enemies, forsooth it is of God for to help, and to turn men into flight. (for if thou thinkest that battles stand, or fall, by the strength of an army, then the Lord shall make thee to be overcome by thy enemies; for it is of God to help thee, or to turn men to flight.)

Micah 4:3and he shall deem betwixt many peoples, and shall chastise strong folks till into far. And they shall beat together their swords into shares + 4:3 In other writings, John Wycliffe renders this word in this verse as ‘plowghschares’ (‘ploughshares’/‘plowshares’)., and their spears into pickaxes; folk shall not take sword against folk, and they shall no more learn to fight. (and he shall judge between many peoples, and shall chastise, or shall discipline, strong nations afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pickaxes; yea, nation shall not take up sword against nation, and they shall no more prepare for battle.)

Luke 13:12Whom when Jesus had seen, he called [her] to him, and said to her, Woman, thou art delivered of thy sickness [or thou art left (or thou art let go) of thy sickness].

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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