Joel Chapter 3 verse 10 Holy Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
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For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.
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Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
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Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
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Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am strong."
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Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I `am' mighty.'
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Joel 3 : 10 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears. The weapons of war are to be provided; and the speediest way in which the manufacture of those weapons could be effected was by turning their implements of husbandry into them. The figure may, perhaps, have been suggested by the interest King Uzziah took in, and the encouragement he consequently gave to, husbandry and vine-culture, if we may presume Joel to have been in part contemporary with that king, of whom we are informed that "he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." It is also a familiar fact that Isaiah and Micah reverse the expression in their description of Messianic times; while well-known parallels are quoted from the Latin classics. Let the weak say, I am strong; or, a hero. The approaching war was to be one in which no release, no excuse, and no exemption from any cause would be allowed, nay, the excitement of the occasion should warm the cold blood of the weakling into some degree of warlike enthusiasm. The address, it will be observed, of the previous verse is to the heroic chiefs; that of this verse, to the rank-and-file of the army.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Beat your plowshares . . .--When the contest was over, and the victory of the Lord achieved, Micah foresaw the reversal of this order: the weapons of offence were once more to resume their peaceful character. "They "--i.e., the nations--"shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" (Micah 4:3).
