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Joel 3:11
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Apresuraos y venid, naciones todas de alrededor, y reuníos allí. Haz descender, oh Señor , a tus valientes.
Juntaos y venid, gentes todas de alrededor, y congregaos; haz venir allí, oh Jehová, tus fuertes.
Juntaos y venid, gentiles todos de alrededor, y congregaos; haz venir allí, oh SEŃOR, tus fuertes.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Assemble: Joel 3:2, Ezekiel 38:9-18, Micah 4:12, Zephaniah 3:8, Zechariah 14:2, Zechariah 14:3, Revelation 16:14-16, Revelation 19:19, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:8, Revelation 20:9
cause: etc. or, the Lord shall bring down thy mighty ones, mighty. Psalms 103:20, Isaiah 10:34, Isaiah 13:3, Isaiah 37:36, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, Revelation 19:14
Reciprocal: Judges 4:7 - And I 2 Kings 10:21 - And they came Isaiah 41:1 - let the people Isaiah 43:9 - all the Ezekiel 30:3 - the time Obadiah 1:15 - the day Zechariah 14:5 - and all
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Assemble yourselves,.... From divers parts into one place: "be ye gathered"; or "gather yourselves together", as the Targum and Kimchi; get together in a body, muster up all the forces you can collect together, Jarchi, from Menachem, by the change of a letter, renders it, "make ye haste"; lose time in preparing for this battle; get men, and arms for them, as fast as you can; be as expeditious as possible:
and come, all ye Heathen; antichristian nations, Mahometan or Papal; which latter, especially, are sometimes called Heathen and Gentiles, because of the Heathenish rites introduced into their worship,
Psalms 10:16;
and gather yourselves round about: from all parts, to the valley of Jehoshaphat or Armageddon, Revelation 16:14; this is spoken ironically to them, to use their utmost endeavours to get most powerful armies against the people of God, which would be of no avail, but issue in their own destruction; or it may signify what should be done by the providence of God, bringing such large numbers of them together to their own ruin:
thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord; which is a prayer of the prophet, or of the church, to God, that he would send down his mighty ones, the angels that excel in strength, and destroy this great army thus gathered together, as an angel in one night destroyed the army of Sennacherib. So Kimchi and Aben Ezra interpret if of angels, and many other interpreters; but perhaps it may be better to understand it of Christian princes and their forces, those armies clothed in white, and riding on white horses, in token of victory; with Christ at the head of them, Revelation 19:14; who may be said to be caused to "come down"; because, being assembled shall go down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, where their enemies are gathered together, and discomfit them, The Targum is,
"there the Lord shall, break the strength of their strong ones.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Once 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, O Lord.” Against “the mighty ones” of the earth, or “the weak” who “say” they are “mighty,” (the same word is used throughout,) there “come down the mighty ones of God.” The “mighty ones of God,” whom He is prayed to “cause to come down,” i. e., from heaven, can be no other than the mighty angels, of whom it is said, they “are mighty in strength” Psalms 103:20 (still the same word,) to whom God gives “charge over” Psalms 91:11. His own, “to keep” them “in all” their “ways,” and one of whom, in this place, killed “one hundred and fourscore and five thousand” 2 Kings 19:35 of the Assyrians. So our Lord saith, “The Son of man shall send forth His Angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them that do iniquity” Matthew 13:41.
