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Joel 3:2

The New Testament’s use of Joel

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 16:12-16

'I will gather all the nations... to the valley of Jehoshaphat and enter into judgment.' With Joel 3:11-14 ('Let the nations... come up... multitudes in the valley of decision') it is the controlling subtext for gathering the kings to the eschatological war (16:14,16).

High confidence
Matt 25:31-46

'I will gather all the nations... and I will enter into judgment with them there' supplies the assize of the nations gathered before the throne (v.32), where they are judged on how they treated God's people.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Joel 3
Joel 3:12 2Joel 3:13 9Joel 3:16 2Joel 3:18 3