Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 3:1

1 FOR behold in those dayes, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem .

Though our dividing this Chapter from the former seems to some a beginning of some new matter, yet indeed the Prophet prosecutes his old Subject, and proceeds to declare how that great thing mention'd in the last ver. of the second chap. should be effected, and in this verse you have a Transition to that thing.

It is a note of great attention, and heeding what is to be here spoken.

When I shall by Cyrus the Type bring Iudah's people out of Babylonish Captivity; the emblem of a greater and worse Captivity

after the flesh as the Type, but, according to the mystery of it, Iudah signifieth the whole remnant, or residue of those God will save,

Both literally and typically understood, so that beside what refers to the History of the Two Tribes or Kingdom of the House of David restored out of Captivity by Cyrus, here is the bringing back the Captivity of the whole Israel of God by Christ the Messiah to be considered, and all along through this Chapter.