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Joel 3:2

Joel 3:2
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I will also gather all nations,.... Or cause or suffer them to be gathered together against his people; not the Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites, in the times of Jehoshaphat, as Aben Ezra; but either…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat - It may be that the imagery is furnished by that great deliverance which God gave to Jehoshaphat, when “Ammon and Moab and…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joel 3:1-8

We have often heard of the year of the redeemed, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion; now here we have a description of the transactions of that year, and a prophecy of what shall…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

I will also gather I will gather: -also" is a misrendering of the Heb. idiom employed (cf. Amo 3:14).

the valley of Jehoshaphat as is shewn by the play upon the name, which, both here and in Joe 3:3,…