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Verse	Translation	Text
Joe 3:4	Strong Concordance	Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre [06865], and Zidon [06721], and all the coasts [01552] of Palestine [06429]? will ye render [07999] me a recompence [01576]? and if ye recompense [01580] me, swiftly [07031] and speedily [04120] will I return [07725] your recompence [01576] upon your own head [07218];
	King James	Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
what have ye to do with me--Ye have no connection with Me (that is, with My people: God identifying Himself with Israel); I (that is, My people) have given you no cause of quarrel, why then do ye trouble Me (that is, My people)? (Compare the same phrase, Jos 22:24; Jdg 11:12; Sa2 16:10; Mat 8:29). Tyre . . . Zidon . . . Palestine-- (Amo 1:6, Amo 1:9). if ye recompense me--If ye injure Me (My people), in revenge for fancied wrongs (Eze 25:15-17), I will requite you in your own coin swiftly and speedily.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

what have ye to do with me--Ye have no connection with Me (that is, with My people: God identifying Himself with Israel); I (that is, My people) have given you no cause of quarrel, why then do ye trouble Me (that is, My people)? (Compare the same phrase, Jos 22:24; Jdg 11:12; Sa2 16:10; Mat 8:29).

Tyre . . . Zidon . . . Palestine-- (Amo 1:6, Amo 1:9).

if ye recompense me--If ye injure Me (My people), in revenge for fancied wrongs (Eze 25:15-17), I will requite you in your own coin swiftly and speedily.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Yea, and what have ye to do with Me? - Literally, "and also, what are ye to Me?" The words, "And also," show that this is something additional to the deeds of those before spoken of. Those, instanced before, were great oppressors, such as dispersed the former people of God and "divided their land." In addition to these, God condemns here another class, those who, without having power to destroy, harass and vex His heritage. The words, "what are ye to Me?" are like that other phrase, "what is there to thee and me?" (Jos 22:24, etc; Mat 8:29, ...), i. e., what have we in common? These words, "what are ye to Me?" also declare, that those nations had no part in God. God accounts them as aliens, "what are ye to Me?" Nothing. But the words convey, besides, that they would, unprovoked, have to do with God, harassing His people without cause. They obtruded themselves, as it were, upon God and His judgments; they challenged God; they thrust themselves in, to their destruction, where they had no great temptation to meddle, noticing, but inbred malice, to impel them. This was, especially, the character of the relations of Tyre and Zidon and Philistia with Israel. They were allotted to Israel by Joshua, but were not assailed . On the contrary, "the Zidonians" are counted among those who "oppressed" Israel, and "out of" whose "hand" God "delivered" him, when he "cried" to God Jdg 10:12. The Philistines were the unwearied assailants of Israel in the days of the Judges, and Saul, and David Jdg 13:1; 1 Sam. 4; 13; 17; Sa1 23:1; 1 Sam. 30; Sa1 31:1-13; during 40 years Israel was given into the hands of the Philistines, until God delivered them by Samuel at Mizpeh. When David was king of all Israel, the Philistines still acted on the offensive, and lost Gath and her towns to David in an offensive war Sa2 5:17-25; Sa2 8:1; Ch1 18:1; Sa2 21:18; Sa2 13:9-16. To Jehoshaphat some of them voluntarily paid tribute Ch2 17:11; but in the reign of Jehoram his son, they, with some Arabians, marauded in Judah, plundering the king's house and slaying all his sons, save the youngest Ch2 21:16-17; Ch2 22:1. This is the last event before the time of Joel. They stand among the most inveterate and unprovoked enemies of God's people, and probably as enemies of God also hating the claim of Judah that their God was the One God. Will ye render Me a recompense? - People never want pleas for themselves. The Philistines, although the aggressors, had been signally defeated by David. People forget their own wrong-doings and remember their sufferings. It may be then, that the Philistines thought that they had been aggrieved when their assaults were defeated, and looked upon their own fresh aggressions as a requital. If moreover, as is probable, they heard that the signal victories won over them were ascribed by Israel to God, and themselves also suspected, that these "mighty Gods" Sa1 4:7-8 were the cause of their defeat, they doubtless turned their hatred against God. People, when they submit not to God chastening them, hate Him. This belief that they were retaliating against God, (not, of course, knowing Him as God,) fully corresponds with the strong words, "will ye render Me "a recompense?" Julian's dying blasphemy, "Galilean, thou hast conquered," corresponds with the efforts of his life against the gospel, and implies a secret consciousness that He whose religion he was straining to overthrow "might" be, What he denied Him to be, God. The phrase "swiftly," literally "lightly, and speedily, denotes" the union of easiness with speed. The recompense is returned "upon" their head, coming down upon them from God.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Yea, and what have ye to do with Me? - Literally, "and also, what are ye to Me?" The words, "And also," show that this is something additional to the deeds of those before spoken of. Those, instanced before, were great oppressors, such as dispersed the former people of God and "divided their land." In addition to these, God condemns here another class, those who, without having power to destroy, harass and vex His heritage. The words, "what are ye to Me?" are like that other phrase, "what is there to thee and me?" (Jos 22:24, etc; Mat 8:29, ...), i. e., what have we in common? These words, "what are ye to Me?" also declare, that those nations had no part in God. God accounts them as aliens, "what are ye to Me?" Nothing. But the words convey, besides, that they would, unprovoked, have to do with God, harassing His people without cause. They obtruded themselves, as it were, upon God and His judgments; they challenged God; they thrust themselves in, to their destruction, where they had no great temptation to meddle, noticing, but inbred malice, to impel them.

This was, especially, the character of the relations of Tyre and Zidon and Philistia with Israel. They were allotted to Israel by Joshua, but were not assailed . On the contrary, "the Zidonians" are counted among those who "oppressed" Israel, and "out of" whose "hand" God "delivered" him, when he "cried" to God Jdg 10:12. The Philistines were the unwearied assailants of Israel in the days of the Judges, and Saul, and David Jdg 13:1; 1 Sam. 4; 13; 17; Sa1 23:1; 1 Sam. 30; Sa1 31:1-13; during 40 years Israel was given into the hands of the Philistines, until God delivered them by Samuel at Mizpeh. When David was king of all Israel, the Philistines still acted on the offensive, and lost Gath and her towns to David in an offensive war Sa2 5:17-25; Sa2 8:1; Ch1 18:1; Sa2 21:18; Sa2 13:9-16. To Jehoshaphat some of them voluntarily paid tribute Ch2 17:11; but in the reign of Jehoram his son, they, with some Arabians, marauded in Judah, plundering the king's house and slaying all his sons, save the youngest Ch2 21:16-17; Ch2 22:1. This is the last event before the time of Joel. They stand among the most inveterate and unprovoked enemies of God's people, and probably as enemies of God also hating the claim of Judah that their God was the One God.

Will ye render Me a recompense? - People never want pleas for themselves. The Philistines, although the aggressors, had been signally defeated by David. People forget their own wrong-doings and remember their sufferings. It may be then, that the Philistines thought that they had been aggrieved when their assaults were defeated, and looked upon their own fresh aggressions as a requital. If moreover, as is probable, they heard that the signal victories won over them were ascribed by Israel to God, and themselves also suspected, that these "mighty Gods" Sa1 4:7-8 were the cause of their defeat, they doubtless turned their hatred against God. People, when they submit not to God chastening them, hate Him. This belief that they were retaliating against God, (not, of course, knowing Him as God,) fully corresponds with the strong words, "will ye render Me "a recompense?" Julian's dying blasphemy, "Galilean, thou hast conquered," corresponds with the efforts of his life against the gospel, and implies a secret consciousness that He whose religion he was straining to overthrow "might" be, What he denied Him to be, God. The phrase "swiftly," literally "lightly, and speedily, denotes" the union of easiness with speed. The recompense is returned "upon" their head, coming down upon them from God.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Yea - Have I done you any wrong, which you avenge upon my people? Or do you begin to violate the laws of neighbourhood and friendship, and think to escape? Do ye think you have to do with a poor opprest people, my people, and I nothing concerned at it? Palestine - On which were towns of trade, and merchants that bought and sold these captives. A recompence - Have I or my people so dealt with you? And if - If you will deal thus, I will speedily avenge myself and my people of you.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
What have ye to do with me - Why have the Syrians and Sidonians joined their other enemies to oppress my people? for they who touch my people touch me. Will ye render me a recompense? - Do you think by this to avenge yourselves upon the Almighty? to retaliate upon God! Proceed, and speedily will I return your recompense; I will retaliate.

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¹⁵ Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Because the Philistines [06430] have dealt [06213] by revenge [05360], and have taken [05358] vengeance [05359] with a despiteful [07589] heart [05315], to destroy [04889] it for the old [05769] hatred [0342];
¹⁶ Therefore thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Behold, I will stretch out [05186] mine hand [03027] upon the Philistines [06430], and I will cut off [03772] the Cherethims [03774], and destroy [06] the remnant [07611] of the sea [03220] coast [02348].
¹⁷ And I will execute [06213] great [01419] vengeance [05360] upon them with furious [02534] rebukes [08433]; and they shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068], when I shall lay [05414] my vengeance [05360] upon them.

⁹ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; For three [07969] transgressions [06588] of Tyrus [06865], and for four [0702], I will not turn away [07725] the punishment thereof; because they delivered up [05462] the whole [08003] captivity [01546] to Edom [0123], and remembered [02142] not the brotherly [0251] covenant [01285]:

⁶ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; For three [07969] transgressions [06588] of Gaza [05804], and for four [0702], I will not turn away [07725] the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive [01540] the whole [08003] captivity [01546], to deliver them up [05462] to Edom [0123]:

²⁹ And [2532], behold [2400], they cried out [2896], saying [3004], What [5101] have we [2254] to do with [2532] thee [4671], Jesus [2424], thou Son [5207] of God [2316]? art thou come [2064] hither [5602] to torment [928] us [2248] before [4253] the time [2540]?

¹⁰ And the king [04428] said [0559], What have I to do with you, ye sons [01121] of Zeruiah [06870]? so let him curse [07043], because the LORD [03068] hath said [0559] unto him, Curse [07043] David [01732]. Who shall then say [0559], Wherefore hast thou done so [06213]?

¹² And Jephthah [03316] sent [07971] messengers [04397] unto the king [04428] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], saying [0559], What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come [0935] against me to fight [03898] in my land [0776]?

²⁴ And if we have not rather done [06213] it for fear [01674] of this thing [01697], saying [0559], In time to come [04279] your children [01121] might speak [0559] unto our children [01121], saying [0559], What have ye to do with the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478]?

⁷ And the Philistines [06430] were afraid [03372], for they said [0559], God [0430] is come [0935] into the camp [04264]. And they said [0559], Woe [0188] unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore [0865] [08032].
⁸ Woe [0188] unto us! who shall deliver [05337] us out of the hand [03027] of these mighty [0117] Gods [0430]? these are the Gods [0430] that smote [05221] the Egyptians [04714] with all the plagues [04347] in the wilderness [04057].

¹ And the inhabitants [03427] of Jerusalem [03389] made [04427] Ahaziah [0274] his youngest [06996] son [01121] king [04427] in his stead: for the band of men [01416] that came [0935] with the Arabians [06163] to the camp [04264] had slain [02026] all the eldest [07223]. So Ahaziah [0274] the son [01121] of Jehoram [03088] king [04428] of Judah [03063] reigned [04427].

¹⁶ Moreover the LORD [03068] stirred up [05782] against Jehoram [03088] the spirit [07307] of the Philistines [06430], and of the Arabians [06163], that were near [05921] [03027] the Ethiopians [03569]:
¹⁷ And they came up [05927] into Judah [03063], and brake [01234] into it, and carried away [07617] all the substance [07399] that was found [04672] in the king's [04428] house [01004], and his sons [01121] also, and his wives [0802]; so that there was never a son [01121] left [07604] him, save Jehoahaz [03059], the youngest [06996] of his sons [01121].

¹¹ Also some of the Philistines [06430] brought [0935] Jehoshaphat [03092] presents [04503], and tribute [04853] silver [03701]; and the Arabians [06163] brought [0935] him flocks [06629], seven [07651] thousand [0505] and seven [07651] hundred [03967] rams [0352], and seven [07651] thousand [0505] and seven [07651] hundred [03967] he goats [08495].

⁹ And she took [03947] a pan [04958], and poured them out [03332] before [06440] him; but he refused [03985] to eat [0398]. And Amnon [0550] said [0559], Have out [03318] all men [0376] from me. And they went out [03318] every man [0376] from him.
¹⁰ And Amnon [0550] said [0559] unto Tamar [08559], Bring [0935] the meat [01279] into the chamber [02315], that I may eat [01262] of thine hand [03027]. And Tamar [08559] took [03947] the cakes [03834] which she had made [06213], and brought [0935] them into the chamber [02315] to Amnon [0550] her brother [0251].
¹¹ And when she had brought [05066] them unto him to eat [0398], he took hold [02388] of her, and said [0559] unto her, Come [0935] lie [07901] with me, my sister [0269].
¹² And she answered [0559] him, Nay, my brother [0251], do not force [06031] me; for no such thing ought [03651] to be done [06213] in Israel [03478]: do [06213] not thou this folly [05039].
¹³ And I, whither shall I cause my shame [02781] to go [03212]? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one [0259] of the fools [05036] in Israel [03478]. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak [01696] unto the king [04428]; for he will not withhold [04513] me from thee.
¹⁴ Howbeit he would [014] not hearken [08085] unto her voice [06963]: but, being stronger [02388] than she, forced [06031] her, and lay [07901] with her.
¹⁵ Then Amnon [0550] hated [08130] her exceedingly [03966] [01419]; so that the hatred [08135] wherewith he hated [08130] her was greater [01419] than the love [0160] wherewith he had loved [0157] her. And Amnon [0550] said [0559] unto her, Arise [06965], be gone [03212].
¹⁶ And she said [0559] unto him, There is no cause [0182]: this evil [07451] in sending me away [07971] is greater [01419] than the other [0312] that thou didst [06213] unto me. But he would [014] not hearken [08085] unto her.

¹⁸ And it came to pass after this [0310], that there was again a battle [04421] with the Philistines [06430] at Gob [01359]: then Sibbechai [05444] the Hushathite [02843] slew [05221] Saph [05593], which was of the sons [03211] of the giant [07497].

¹ Now after this [0310] it came to pass, that David [01732] smote [05221] the Philistines [06430], and subdued [03665] them, and took [03947] Gath [01661] and her towns [01323] out of the hand [03027] of the Philistines [06430].

¹ And after [0310] this it came to pass, that David [01732] smote [05221] the Philistines [06430], and subdued [03665] them: and David [01732] took [03947] Methegammah [04965] out of the hand [03027] of the Philistines [06430].

¹⁷ But when the Philistines [06430] heard [08085] that they had anointed [04886] David [01732] king [04428] over Israel [03478], all the Philistines [06430] came up [05927] to seek [01245] David [01732]; and David [01732] heard [08085] of it, and went down [03381] to the hold [04686].
¹⁸ The Philistines [06430] also came [0935] and spread [05203] themselves in the valley [06010] of Rephaim [07497].
¹⁹ And David [01732] enquired [07592] of the LORD [03068], saying [0559], Shall I go up [05927] to the Philistines [06430]? wilt thou deliver [05414] them into mine hand [03027]? And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto David [01732], Go up [05927]: for I will doubtless [05414] deliver [05414] the Philistines [06430] into thine hand [03027].
²⁰ And David [01732] came [0935] to Baalperazim [01188], and David [01732] smote [05221] them there, and said [0559], The LORD [03068] hath broken forth [06555] upon mine enemies [0341] before [06440] me, as the breach [06556] of waters [04325]. Therefore he called [07121] the name [08034] of that place [04725] Baalperazim [01188].
²¹ And there they left [05800] their images [06091], and David [01732] and his men [0582] burned [05375] them.
²² And the Philistines [06430] came up [05927] yet again [03254], and spread [05203] themselves in the valley [06010] of Rephaim [07497].
²³ And when David [01732] enquired [07592] of the LORD [03068], he said [0559], Thou shalt not go up [05927]; but fetch a compass [05437] behind [0310] them, and come [0935] upon them over against [04136] the mulberry trees [01057].
²⁴ And let it be, when thou hearest [08085] the sound [06963] of a going [06807] in the tops [07218] of the mulberry trees [01057], that then thou shalt bestir [02782] thyself: for then shall the LORD [03068] go out [03318] before [06440] thee, to smite [05221] the host [04264] of the Philistines [06430].
²⁵ And David [01732] did so [06213], as the LORD [03068] had commanded [06680] him; and smote [05221] the Philistines [06430] from Geba [01387] until thou come [0935] to Gazer [01507].

¹ Now the Philistines [06430] fought [03898] against Israel [03478]: and the men [0582] of Israel [03478] fled [05127] from before [06440] the Philistines [06430], and fell down [05307] slain [02491] in mount [02022] Gilboa [01533].
² And the Philistines [06430] followed hard [01692] upon Saul [07586] and upon his sons [01121]; and the Philistines [06430] slew [05221] Jonathan [03083], and Abinadab [041], and Malchishua [04444], Saul's [07586] sons [01121].
³ And the battle [04421] went sore [03513] against Saul [07586], and the archers [03384] [0582] [07198] hit [04672] him; and he was sore [03966] wounded [02342] of the archers [03384] [0582] [07198].
⁴ Then said [0559] Saul [07586] unto his armourbearer [05375] [03627], Draw [08025] thy sword [02719], and thrust me through [01856] therewith; lest these uncircumcised [06189] come [0935] and thrust me through [01856], and abuse [05953] me. But his armourbearer [05375] [03627] would [014] not; for he was sore [03966] afraid [03372]. Therefore Saul [07586] took [03947] a sword [02719], and fell [05307] upon it.
⁵ And when his armourbearer [05375] [03627] saw [07200] that Saul [07586] was dead [04191], he fell [05307] likewise upon his sword [02719], and died [04191] with him.
⁶ So Saul [07586] died [04191], and his three [07969] sons [01121], and his armourbearer [05375] [03627], and all his men [0582], that same day [03117] together [03162].
⁷ And when the men [0582] of Israel [03478] that were on the other side [05676] of the valley [06010], and they that were on the other side [05676] Jordan [03383], saw [07200] that the men [0582] of Israel [03478] fled [05127], and that Saul [07586] and his sons [01121] were dead [04191], they forsook [05800] the cities [05892], and fled [05127]; and the Philistines [06430] came [0935] and dwelt [03427] in them.
⁸ And it came to pass on the morrow [04283], when the Philistines [06430] came [0935] to strip [06584] the slain [02491], that they found [04672] Saul [07586] and his three [07969] sons [01121] fallen [05307] in mount [02022] Gilboa [01533].
⁹ And they cut off [03772] his head [07218], and stripped off [06584] his armour [03627], and sent [07971] into the land [0776] of the Philistines [06430] round about [05439], to publish [01319] it in the house [01004] of their idols [06091], and among the people [05971].
¹⁰ And they put [07760] his armour [03627] in the house [01004] of Ashtaroth [06252] [01045]: and they fastened [08628] his body [01472] to the wall [02346] of Bethshan [01052].
¹¹ And when the inhabitants [03427] of Jabeshgilead [03003] [01568] heard [08085] of that which the Philistines [06430] had done [06213] to Saul [07586];
¹² All the valiant [02428] men [0376] [0381] arose [06965], and went [03212] all night [03915], and took [03947] the body [01472] of Saul [07586] and the bodies [01472] of his sons [01121] from the wall [02346] of Bethshan [01052], and came [0935] to Jabesh [03003], and burnt [08313] them there.
¹³ And they took [03947] their bones [06106], and buried [06912] them under a tree [0815] at Jabesh [03003], and fasted [06684] seven [07651] days [03117].

¹ Then they told [05046] David [01732], saying [0559], Behold, the Philistines [06430] fight [03898] against Keilah [07084], and they rob [08154] the threshingfloors [01637].

¹ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] did [06213] evil [07451] again [03254] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068]; and the LORD [03068] delivered [05414] them into the hand [03027] of the Philistines [06430] forty [0705] years [08141].

¹² The Zidonians [06722] also, and the Amalekites [06002], and the Maonites [04584], did oppress [03905] you; and ye cried [06817] to me, and I delivered [03467] you out of their hand [03027].