Joel 3:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Joel 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Beat your plowshares into swords - Peace had been already promised, as a blessing of the gospel. “In His days,” foretold Solomon, “shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace, so long as...
Joel 3:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(g) Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong. (g) When I will execute my judgments against my enemies, I will cause everyone to be ready,...
Joel 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A Challenge to the Nations to Appear in the Valley of Judgment to Meet their Doom. Returning to the idea of Joel 3:2 , Joel represents Yahweh as bidding the heralds make proclamation among the nat...
Joel 3:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Beat your plowshares, &c. This precedes the opposite command to be given after this in Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3 , when Hosea 2:18 shall be fulfilled. pruninghooks : or, scythes.
Joel 3:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He afterwards adds, Beat your plowshares into swords. When Isaiah and Micah prophesied of the kingdom of Christ, they said, ‘Beat your swords into pruninghooks, and your spears into plowshar...
Joel 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Joel 3:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Beat your plough-shares into swords— He bids them turn all such of their instruments as they used in times of peace, into instruments of war: so Virgil, ———Non ullus aratro Dignus honos: squalen...
Joel 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Beat your plowshares into swords. As the foes are desired to "beat their plowshares into sw...
Joel 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Judgment of the Heathen and the Glory of Israel A general judgment of all nations, for their mistreatment of Israel, is announced in the valley of Jehoshaphat ( Joel 3:1-4 ). Tyre, Zidon, and...
Joel 3:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Beat your plowshares ... — When the contest was over, and the victory of the Lord achieved, Micah foresaw the reversal of this order: the weapons of offence were once more to resume their peaceful c...
Joel 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE JUDGMENT OF THE HEATHEN Joel 3:1-21 HITHERTO Joel has spoken no syllable of the heathen, except to pray that God by His plagues will not give Israel to be mocked by them. But in the last ch...
Joel 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Valley of Decision” Joel 2:28-32 ; Joel 3:1-21 Having stated the outward blessings that would follow repentance, Joel unveils the extraordinary spiritual blessings that were in store. The...
Joel 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Finally the prophet moved on to a yet higher level, and dealt wholly with things to come. The great word introducing the section is "afterward." Some of the things foretold have now been fulfilled, s...
Joel 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I do not presume to say as much, but I venture to believe, that Joel's prophecy in this Chapter is looking so far on, as to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The valley of Jehoshaphat is ag...
Joel 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears ,.... Let not only soldiers, and such as have been trained up in military discipline, appear in the field on this occasion; but...
Joel 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong. Ver. 10. Beat your ploughshares into swords ] Come with the best preparation you can make, tha...
Joel 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles “God having foretold these judgments against Tyre and Sidon, the Philistines, and the neighbouring nations, who had used the Jews with injustice and cruelty, pro...
Joel 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against Israel's Enemies. B. C. 720. 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentile...
Joel 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Beat your ploughshares into swords: here is a prediction of war, and such as should continue, with some intermissions, through many years; as, on the contrary, when swords were to be beaten into pl...
Joel 3:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Calls The Nations To Judgment Before Him And His Mighty Ones ( Joel 3:9-14 ). The final day of YHWH is set up and the nations are called for judgment. The nations send out the call because th...
Joel 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES. Joel 3:9 .] A call to war ( Ezekiel 38:7 ). Prepare ] Lit. sanctify, for heathen war began with religious ceremonies ( Jeremiah 6:4 ; 1 Samuel 7:8-9 ). Wake up ] Arouse the her...
Joel 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 3:1 . Behold, in those days, in the days of the Messiah, as stated from the twenty eighth verse of the preseding chapter. Of course all references in our elder critics, to Cambyses, and to Ju...
Joel 3:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Prepare war, wake up the mighty men. The final battle between good and evil I. In this battle evil will gather all its available energies. “Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wak...
Joel 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Joel 3:1-29 These verses describe the deliverance of God's people and the destruction of his enemies because of their injurious, insulting, and ignominious treatment of his peopl...
Joel 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jehovah The Hope of the People
Joel 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 25:8 ; Isaiah 2:4 ; Luke 22:36 ; Micah 4:3 ; Zechariah 12:8
Joel 3:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I am strong — Put on strength and valour; let none be absent from this war.

Joel 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joel 3:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Joel 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 3:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joel 3:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joel 3:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joel 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joel 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 3:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joel 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joel 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joel 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joel 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joel 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joel 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joel 3:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joel 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 3:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joel 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joel 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joel 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel 3:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes