Joel 3:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. ”

• Joel 3:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For I will cleanse her blood that I have not cleansed - The word rendered “cleansed” is not used of natural cleansing, nor is the image taken from the cleansing of the body. The word signifies on...

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• Joel 3:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For I will (n) cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. (n) He had allowed his Church before this to lie in their filthiness, but now he promises to cleanse the...

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• Joel 3:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Future Felicity of Judah Contrasted with the Desolation of her Oppressors. In that golden age when Yahweh shall dwell in Zion miraculous fertility shall transform the land, covering it with vin...

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• Joel 3:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  cleanse... cleansed . clear... cleared. This could be done only by avenging it; for God will "by no means clear the guilty" ( Exodus 34:7 ; Numbers 14:18 ); and Egypt, Edom, &c., were guilty (...

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• Joel 3:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The beginning of the verse is in various ways explained. Some make a stop after cleanse thus, “I will cleanse, yet their blood I will not cleanse;” as though God had said, that he would forg...

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• Joel 3:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. For I will cleanse their blood - נקיתי nikkeythi, I will avenge the slaughter and martyrdom of my people, whi...

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• Joel 3:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For I will cleanse, &c.— cleansed — For I will avenge, &c. avenged. Houbigant reads, I will avenge their blood, and not spare; and the Lord shall inhabit Zion. The reader will see a v...

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• Joel 3:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed - I will purge away from Judah the extreme guilt (represented by...

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• Joel 3:21 - 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...

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• Joel 3:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I will cleanse ... — The LXX. translate this sentence, “I will avenge their blood, and not leave it unavenged” — i.e., the “innocent blood” mentioned in Joel 3:19 ; but the promise seems rather t...

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• Joel 3:21 - 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...

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• Joel 3:21 - 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...

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• Joel 3:21 - 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...

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• Joel 3:21 - 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...

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• Joel 3:21 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  CHRIST IN HIS CHURCH ‘For the Lord dwelleth in Zion.’ Joel 3:21 The preceding verses graphically describe the destruction of the enemies of the Church of God. These enemies among the nations...

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• Joel 3:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For I will cleanse their blood [which] I have not cleansed ,.... Which some understand, as the Targum, of the Lord's, inflicting further punishments on the, enemies of his people, for shedding their...

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• Joel 3:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. Ver. 21. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed ] i.e. I will clear their consciences f...

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• Joel 3:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I will cleanse their blood , &c. The word blood seems here to signify pollution in general; and the promise implies, that God would perfectly purge away the guilt and defilement of all the sin...

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• Joel 3:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Judgments and Mercies; Promises to the Church. B. C. 720.       18 And it shall come to pass...

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• Joel 3:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  For, Heb. And . Cleanse ; purge away, both by the Spirit of sanctification, and by free pardon in the blood of the Redeemer; by their sufferings also, by the waters of affliction, as well as by t...

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• Joel 3:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Final Showdown ( Joel 3:15-21 ). Joel closes his prophecy by declaring what YHWH will do for His people as by His mighty roar, and by portentous signs, He demonstrates to the world His watch o...

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• Joel 3:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES. Joel 3:18 .] After judgment upon all nations, the land of Jehovah shall overflow with Divine blessings; but the seat of the world will become barren waste. Drop ] Poetic for grea...

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• Joel 3:21 - 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...

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• Joel 3:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine. The golden age I. It will be an age in which great temporal prosperity will be witnessed. “And it shall come...

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• Joel 3:21 - 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...

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• Joel 3:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jehovah The Hope of the People

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• Joel 3:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 36:25 ; Ezekiel 36:29 ; Ezekiel 48:35 ; Isaiah 4:4 ; Joel 3:17 ; Matthew 27:25 ; Revelation 21:3

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• Joel 3:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And I will cleanse — Purge away both by the spirit of sanctification and by free pardon in the blood of the redeemer. Their blood — Their sinfulness, which before I had not taken away.

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