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Joel 3

King James Version · 21 verses · 545 cross-references linking it to 241 other chapters

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  1. 1For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,30 cross-references: Zephaniah 3:19–20, Jeremiah 30:3, Ezekiel 39:25, Amos 9:14, Psalms 85:1
  2. 2I 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.44 cross-references: Zechariah 14:2–4, Zephaniah 3:8, Isaiah 66:16, Ezekiel 38:22, Joel 3:12
  3. 3And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.18 cross-references: Nahum 3:10, Amos 2:6, Obadiah 1:11, Revelation 18:13, 2 Chronicles 28:8–9
  4. 4Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;33 cross-references: Isaiah 34:8, Jeremiah 47:4, Amos 1:6–10, Isaiah 59:18, Isaiah 23:1–2
  5. 5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:13 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 21:16–17, 2 Kings 12:18, 2 Kings 24:13, 2 Kings 18:15–16, 2 Kings 16:8
  6. 6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.12 cross-references: Ezekiel 27:13, Joel 3:3, Joel 3:8, Deuteronomy 28:68, Deuteronomy 28:32
  7. 7Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:25 cross-references: Isaiah 43:5–6, Jeremiah 23:8, 2 Thessalonians 1:6, Zechariah 10:6–10, Jeremiah 30:16
  8. 8And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.17 cross-references: Isaiah 60:14, Job 1:15, Judges 2:14, Isaiah 14:1–2, Ezekiel 23:42
  9. 9Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:39 cross-references: Jeremiah 46:3–4, Ezekiel 38:7, Isaiah 8:9–10, Jeremiah 31:10, Jeremiah 50:2
  10. 10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.9 cross-references: Zechariah 12:8, 2 Chronicles 25:8, Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:3, Luke 22:36
  11. 11Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.22 cross-references: Isaiah 13:3, Zephaniah 3:8, Joel 3:2, Zechariah 14:2–3, Isaiah 37:36
  12. 12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.29 cross-references: Joel 3:2, Isaiah 3:13, Isaiah 2:4, Psalms 98:9, Psalms 96:13
  13. 13Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.19 cross-references: Revelation 14:15–20, Mark 4:29, Hosea 6:11, Isaiah 63:3, Jeremiah 51:33
  14. 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.22 cross-references: Joel 3:2, Philippians 3:2, Revelation 19:19–21, Isaiah 34:2–8, 2 Peter 3:7
  15. 15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.20 cross-references: Joel 2:10, Joel 2:31, Luke 21:25–26, Matthew 24:29, Isaiah 13:10
  16. 16The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.57 cross-references: Amos 1:2, Joel 2:10–11, Haggai 2:6, Isaiah 42:13, Proverbs 18:10
  17. 17So 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.52 cross-references: Joel 2:27, Isaiah 52:1, Nahum 1:15, Revelation 21:27, Isaiah 4:3
  18. 18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.38 cross-references: Zechariah 14:8, Revelation 22:1–2, Ezekiel 47:1–12, Isaiah 35:6, Numbers 25:1
  19. 19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.35 cross-references: Isaiah 19:1–15, Zechariah 14:18–19, Jeremiah 51:35, Amos 1:11–12, Lamentations 4:21
  20. 20But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.12 cross-references: Ezekiel 37:25, Amos 9:15, Isaiah 33:20
  21. 21For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.19 cross-references: Ezekiel 36:25, Isaiah 4:4, Revelation 21:3, Ezekiel 36:29, Ezekiel 48:35

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People in Joel 3

God, Jehoshaphat, Jacob, Esau

Places in Joel 3

Jerusalem, Zion, Valley of Jehoshaphat, Tyre, Sidon, Valley of Shittim, Edom, Egypt

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