Joel 3:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And 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.

The mountains

Job 29:6

Isaiah 55:12

Amos 9:13

And all

Isaiah 30:25

Isaiah 35:6

Isaiah 41:17

And a

The valley

Numbers 25:1

Micah 6:5

General references

Isaiah 41:18

Ezekiel 36:9

Joel 2:24

Bible References

The mountains

When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.

And all

And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

And a

There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.

And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so.

And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

The valley

Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.

General references

I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.