Joel 3:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

For. Binding this portion to what immediately precedes.

behold. Figure of speech Asterisms. App-6.

in those days, &c. The prophecy, instead of con tracting, widens out to the final judgment of the nations (Matthew 25:31-46, "when the Son of Man shall come in His glory... and sit upon the throne of His glory"), There is no resurrection in this chapter or in that. Here we have the nucleus of the nations of Revelation 21:24.

bring again the captivity. The idiom for restoring the fortunes of. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 30:3). App-92, Compare Job 42:10; Psalms 126:1; Psalms 126:4; Ezekiel 16:53, &c. Amos 9:14.

Joel 3:1

1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,