Joel 3:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the [a]valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people, and for mine heritage Israel: whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
3 And they have cast lots for my people, and have given the child [b]for the harlot, and sold the girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and [c]what have you to do with me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me [d]a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I render your recompense upon your head:
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- Joel 3:2 It appeareth that he alludeth to that great victory of Jehoshaphat, when as God without man’s help destroyed the enemies, 2 Chron. 20:26, also he hath respect to this word Jehoshaphat which signifieth pleading or judgment, because God would judge the enemies of his Church, as he did there.
- Joel 3:3 That which the enemy gat for the sale of my people, he bestowed upon harlots and drink.
- Joel 3:4 He taketh the cause of his Church in hand against the enemy, as though the injury were done to himself.
- Joel 3:4 Have I done you wrong, that ye will render me the like?
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