Christian Standard Bible
Joel 3:7
7Look, I am about to rouse them up from the place where you sold them; I will bring retribution on your heads.
Joel 3:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
- New International Version (NIV)“See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Behold, I will raise them Out of the place to which you have sold them, And will return your retaliation upon your own head.
Context of Joel 3:7
5For you took my silver and gold and carried my finest treasures to your temples. 6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory. Look, I am about to rouse them up from the place where you sold them; I will bring retribution on your heads. 8I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation, for the Lord has spoken. 9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; rouse the warriors; let all the men of war advance and attack!
Read all of Joel 3Joel 3:7 word by word
הִנְנִ֣י מְעִירָ֔ם מִן־הַ֨מָּק֔וֹם אֲשֶׁר־מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם אֹתָ֖ם שָׁ֑מָּה וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֥י גְמֻלְכֶ֖ם בְּרֹאשְׁכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Joel 3:7
- Isaiah 11:12He will lift up a banner for the nations and gather the dispersed of Israel; he will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
- Isaiah 43:5Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west.
- Isaiah 49:12See, these will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Sinim.
- Jeremiah 23:8but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”
- Jeremiah 30:10As for you, my servant Jacob, do not be afraid — this is the Lord’s declaration — and do not be discouraged, Israel, for without fail I will save you out of a distant place, your descendants, from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return and have calm and quiet with no one to frighten him.
- Jeremiah 31:8Watch! I am going to bring them from the northern land. I will gather them from remote regions of the earth — the blind and the lame will be with them, along with those who are pregnant and those about to give birth. They will return here as a great assembly!
- Jeremiah 32:37I will certainly gather them from all the lands where I have banished them in my anger, fury, and intense wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them live in safety.
- Ezekiel 34:12As a shepherd looks for his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will look for my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and total darkness.
- Ezekiel 36:24“‘For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
- Ezekiel 38:8After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war and regathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel, which had long been a ruin. They were brought out from the peoples, and all of them now live securely.
- Zechariah 10:6I will strengthen the house of Judah and deliver the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had never rejected them. For I am the Lord their God, and I will answer them.
- Joel 3:4And also: Tyre, Sidon, and all the territories of Philistia — what are you to me? Are you paying me back or trying to get even with me? I will quickly bring retribution on your heads.
- Judges 1:7Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
- 1 Samuel 15:33Samuel declared: As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women. Then he hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.
- Esther 7:10They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.
- Matthew 7:2For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use.
Commentaries on Joel 3:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7I will raise them - I shall find means to bring them back from the place whither ye have sold them, and they shall retaliate upon you the injuries they have sustained. It is said that Alexander and his successors set at liberty many Jews that had been sold into Greece. And it is likely that many returned from different lands, on the publication of the edict of Cyrus. - Newcome.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Behold I will raise them - If this promise relates to the same individuals who had been sold, it must have been fulfilled silently; as indeed the return of captives to their own land, unless brought about by some historical event, belongs not to history, but to private life. The prophet, however, is probably predicting God‘s dealings with the nations, not with those individuals. The enslaving of these Hebrews in the time of Joram was but one instance out…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8The people of Tyre, Sidon, and Philistia had enslaved Israelites, so the Lord would punish them by selling their sons and daughters into slavery.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. raise them--that is, I will rouse them. Neither sea nor distance will prevent My bringing them back. Alexander, and his successors, restored to liberty many Jews in bondage in Greece [Josephus, Antiquities, 13.5; Wars of the Jews, 3.9,2].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Joel 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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