Joel 3:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

So shall ye know - experimentally by the proofs of favours which I shall vouchsafe to you. So "know" (Isaiah 60:16, "Thou shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob;" Hosea 2:20).

That I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion - as peculiarly your God.

My holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her anymore

- to attack or to defile the holy city (Isaiah 35:8, "The unclean shall not pass over it;" Isaiah 52:1, "Awake! awake! put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean;" Zechariah 14:21, "There shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts"). Strangers, or Gentiles, shall come to Jerusalem, but it shall be in order "to worship" "the King, Yahweh of hosts," there (Zechariah 14:16).

Joel 3:17

17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy,f and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.