Joel 3:11

Joel 3:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, Lord!
• English Standard Version (ESV)Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Assemble and come, all you nations, And gather together all around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O Lord.

Context of Joel 3:11

9Tell this news to the people in all the countries: Get ready for war! Shout to the soldiers. Make all the men who fight get ready to attack. 10Make your ploughs into swords. Make the tools that you use on the farm into spears. The weak man must say, ‘I am strong!’ Come quickly, you people who live round Israel. And get together in the valley. Lord, send down your army to attack them. 12‘Wake up the people in all the countries! Bring them into the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will sit there to judge the people from every place. 13Now is the time to cut down the fruits. They are ready for you to bring them in. Walk all over the grapes. The winepress is full of them. They come over the top. The people in all countries have done so many bad things.’

Joel 3:11 word by word

ע֣וּשׁוּ וָבֹ֧אוּ כָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֛ם מִסָּבִ֖יב וְנִקְבָּ֑צוּ שָׁ֕מָּה הַֽנְחַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה גִּבּוֹרֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Assembleעוּשׁ‛ûsh · to helpH5789
• yourselves, and comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• all ye heathenגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• and gather yourselves togetherקָבַץqâbats · to gatherH6908
• round aboutסָבִיבsâbîyb sebîybâh · aroundH5439
• thither cause thy mighty onesגִּבּוֹרgibbôr gibbôr · mighty manH1368
• to come downנָחֵתnâchath · to descendH5181
• O Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Joel 3:11

• Joel 3:2Then I will bring all the nations together. I will bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will judge against them because of what they did to my children, my people Israel. Those nations pushed my people out into other countries. They broke up my land and each took pieces.
• Ezekiel 38:9Then you will attack them. You, with your armies and all the people with you, will attack them like a great storm. You will be like a dark cloud that covers the land.
• Micah 4:12But they do not know the Lord's thoughts. They do not understand how he will punish them. He will bring them together, as people bring bundles of wheat together at harvest time. He will punish them, as people thresh wheat to get the seeds out.
• Zephaniah 3:8So wait for me, I will stand up and I will punish the nations. I have decided to bring together the nations and the people that kings rule over. Then I will punish them very, very much. They will see how angry I am. They will see it because, on that day, I will burn all the earth.’ That is what the Lord says.
• Zechariah 14:2I will bring soldiers from all countries to fight against Jerusalem. They will go into the city and they will rob the houses. They will have sex with the women. They will lead away half the people to other countries. They will let the other half stay in Jerusalem.
• Revelation 16:14Those bad spirits are the spirits of demons. They had the power to do miracles. They went to all the rulers in the whole world, to bring them together to fight in a big war. That war will happen on the great day of God, who has all power and authority.
• Revelation 19:19Then I saw the wild animal and the kings of the earth and their armies. They had come together to fight a war. They were ready to fight a battle against the man who rode on the white horse and his army.
• Revelation 20:8Satan will then go and deceive people in nations everywhere in the world. He will make them believe him. Those nations are God's enemies, Gog and Magog. Satan will bring them together to fight a war against God's people. Satan's army has many people, as much as the sand on the shore of the sea.
• Psalms 103:20You who are the Lord's angels, you strong angels who do what he tells you to do, praise the Lord!
• Isaiah 10:34The Lord will take his axe and he will cut down the trees of that great forest. Even the best trees of Lebanon must fall down!
• Isaiah 13:3I, the Lord, have sent my special men. I am very angry. Those men are my brave soldiers who will punish Babylon on my behalf. They are proud because I have made them strong.
• Isaiah 37:36Then the Lord's angel went to the camp of the Assyrian army. He killed 185,000 of their soldiers. When people got up in the morning, they saw all those dead bodies!
• 2 Thessalonians 1:7God will also do what is right and fair for you. You have troubles now. But one day God will cause you to have rest, together with us. That will happen when the Lord Jesus comes down from heaven. He will come with his powerful angels,
• Revelation 19:14Heaven's armies were following him. They were also riding on white horses. They were wearing linen clothes that were white and clean.

Commentaries on Joel 3:11

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Once more all the enemies of God are summoned together. “Assemble yourselves,” (Others in the same sense render, “Haste ye,) and come, all ye pagan, round about,” literally “from round about,” i. e., from every side, so as to compass and hem in the people of God, and then, when the net had been, as it were, drawn closer and closer round them, and no way of escape is left, the prophet prays God to send His aid; “thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 Here is a challenge to all the enemies of God's people. There is no escaping God's judgments; hardened sinners, in that day of wrath, shall be cut off from all comfort and joy. Most of the prophets foretell the same final victory of the church of God over all that oppose it. To the wicked it will be a terrible day, but to the righteous it will be a joyful day. What cause have those who possess an interest in Christ, to glory in their Strength…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-16Here, Joel spoke about God’s coming judgment on the nations, especially those that had oppressed God’s people.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. Assemble--"Hasten" [Maurer]. thither--to the valley of Jehoshaphat. thy mighty ones--the warriors who fancy themselves "mighty ones," but who are on that very spot to be overthrown by Jehovah [Maurer]. Compare "the mighty men" (Joe 3:9). Rather, Joel speaks of God's really "mighty ones" in contrast to the self-styled "mighty men" (Joe 3:9; Psa 103:20; Is 13:3; compare Da 10:13). Auberlen remarks: One prophet supplements the other, for they all…Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 3:11

• Egypt
• Joel

In the dictionaries

• Flow
• Harvest
• Hope
• Wake
• Eschatology of the Old Testament
• Grecians; Greeks
• Haste
• Joel (2)
• Sabaeans

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