Joel 3:12-14

12 “Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.

13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow— so great is their wickedness!”

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

Joel 3:12-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOEL 3

This chapter, which some make the fourth, contains a prophecy of God's judgments on all the antichristian nations at the time of the Jews' conversion, and the reasons of them, Joe 3:1-3; a threatening of Tyre and Zidon, by way of retaliation, for carrying the riches of the Jews into their temples, and selling their persons to the Greeks, Joe 3:4-8; an alarm to prepare for the battle of Armageddon, or the destruction that shall be made in the valley of Jehoshaphat, Joe 3:9-15; and after that an account of the happy state of the church of Christ, their safety and security, plenty, prosperity, and purity, to the end of the world, Joe 3:16-21.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 2
• 2. S Psalms 82:1; S Isaiah 2:4
• 3. Mark 4:29
• 4. S Isaiah 17:5; S Hosea 6:11; Matthew 13:39; Revelation 14:15-19
• 5. S Jeremiah 25:30
• 6. S Judges 6:11; S Revelation 14:20
• 7. Isaiah 13:4
• 8. S Isaiah 22:1
• 9. Isaiah 34:2-8; S Joel 1:15; S Zephaniah 1:7
• 10. S Isaiah 2:4; S Ezekiel 36:5