Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Joel 3:13 Cross-References
Explore 11 cross-references for Joel 3:13 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Joel chapter 3 verse 13 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Put 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.”
Joel 3:13 (KJV)
Commentary on Joel 3:13
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe—God commands His angelic reapers to begin judgment. The Hebrew shilchu maggal (שִׁלְחוּ מַגָּל, "send forth the sickle") uses agricultural imagery for judgment. The maggal (מַגָּל) is a curved harvesting blade for cutting grain. "For the harvest is ripe" (ki vashel qatsir, כִּי בָשֵׁל קָצִיר) uses bashel (בָּשֵׁל), meaning fully ripe, mature, ready. When crops reach full maturity, delay means rot and waste—immediate harvest is mandatory. Applied to judgment, this means the nations' wickedness has reached full measure; God's patience is exhausted; t...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Joel 3:13
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“crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud”
“immediately he puts forth the sickle”
“I trod them in my anger”
“the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while”
“and the reapers are angels.”
“Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,,And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;,וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה זַעֲקַת סְדֹם וַעֲמֹרָה כִּי־רָבָּה וְחַטָּאתָם כִּי כָבְדָה מְאֹד׃ ,And the LORD said: Verily”
“Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.”
“The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin”
“for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.,But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.,וְדוֹר רְבִיעִי יָשׁוּבוּ הֵנָּה כִּי לֹא־שָׁלֵם עֲוֺן הָאֱמֹרִי עַד־הֵנָּה׃ ,And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”