Joel 3:7

“Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, etc.] That is, bring them back to their own land, from their places whither they have been carried captive, and where they have dwelt in obscurity, and as if theft had been buried in graves, but now should be raised up and restored; and this their restoration will be as life from the dead. So the Targum, “behold, I will bring them publicly from the place whither ye have sold them;” this is to be understood, not of the same persons, but of their posterity, they being the same natural body. Kimchi interprets it of them and their children; them at the resurrection of the dead, their children at the time of salvation. Some…”

“raise them--that is, I will rouse them. Neither sea nor distance will prevent My bringing them back. Alexander, and his successors, restored to liberty many Jews in bondage in Greece [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 13.5; Wars of the Jews, 9,2].”

“Behold I will raise them - If this promise relates to the same individuals who had been sold, it must have been fulfilled silently; as indeed the return of captives to their own land, unless brought about by some historical event, belongs not to history, but to private life. The prophet, however, is probably predicting God’s dealings with the nations, not with those individuals. The enslaving of these Hebrews in the time of Joram was but one instance out of a whole system of covetous misdeeds. The Philistines carried away captives from them again in the time of Ahaz 2 Chronicles 28:18, and yet again subsequently Ezekiel 16:27, Ezekiel 16:57; and still more at the capture of Jerusalem Ezekiel…”

“I will raise them - This was fulfilled when Alexander, and his successors dismissed all the Jews that were slaves in Greece, and gave them leave to return to their own country. Joel 3:8”

“3:7-8 The people of Tyre, Sidon, and Philistia had enslaved Israelites, so the Lord would punish them by selling their sons and daughters into slavery.”

“I will: Isa 11:12, Isa 43:5, Isa 43:6, Isa 49:12; Jer 23:8, Jer 30:10, Jer 30:16, Jer 31:8, Jer 32:37; Eze 34:12, Eze 34:13, Eze 36:24, Eze 38:8; Zac 10:6-10 and will: Joe 3:4; Jdg 1:7; Sa1 15:33; Est 7:10; Mat 7:2; Th2 1:6; Jam 2:13; Rev 13:10; Rev 16:6, Rev 19:2 Joel 3:8”