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Joel 3:14
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Multitudes, multitudesin the valley of decision!For the day of the Lord is nearin the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near, in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
There are huge numbers of people in the Valley of Decision, because the Lord 's day of judging is near in the Valley of Decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision (judgment)! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision [when judgment is executed].
O multitude, O multitude, come into the valley of threshing: for the day of the Lorde is neere in the valley of threshing.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Crowds fill Decision Valley. The judgment day of the Lord will soon be here—
class="poetry"> "After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions; and also on male and female slaves in those days I will pour out my Spirit. I will show wonders in the sky and on earth — blood, fire and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai ." At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.
An uproar and tumult in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Thousands and thousands are in the Valley of Judgment. It is there that the day of the Lord will soon come.
Commotion, commotion in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision!
Multitudes, multitudes in valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
[4:14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for ye day of the Lord is neere in the valley of decision.
O people, people [come] into the valley of finall iudgement: for the day of the Lorde is at hande in the valley of finall iudgement.
Noises have resounded in the valley of judgment: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgment.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
Puplis, puplis in the valei of kittyng doun; for the dai of the Lord is nyy in the valei of kittyng doun.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.
Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision!
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Thousands upon thousands are waiting in the valley of decision. There the day of the Lord will soon arrive.
Thousands and thousands are in the valley of God's punishment. For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of God's punishment.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the vale of strict decision, - for near is the day of Yahweh, in the vale of strict decision.
Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes [are] in the valley of decision, For near [is] the day of Jehovah in the valley of decision.
In the valley appoynted, there shalbe many, many people: for the daye of the LORDE is nye in ye valley appoynted.
"Mass confusion, mob uproar— in Decision Valley! God 's Judgment Day has arrived in Decision Valley.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
multitudes: Joel 3:2, Isaiah 34:2-8, Isaiah 63:1-7, Ezekiel 38:8-23, Ezekiel 39:8-20, Revelation 16:14-16, Revelation 19:19-21
decision: or, concision, Philippians 3:2, or, threshing
for: Joel 2:1, Psalms 37:13, 2 Peter 3:7
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 13:7 - like the dust Isaiah 13:4 - noise Lamentations 1:21 - the day Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Joel 2:2 - A day of darkness Joel 3:12 - valley Zechariah 14:1 - General Acts 2:20 - great 2 Peter 3:10 - the day
Cross-References
The snake was the most clever of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. The snake spoke to the woman and said, "Woman, did God really tell you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?"
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child's foot, but he will crush your head."
Adam named his wife Eve. He gave her this name because Eve would be the mother of everyone who ever lived.
"God made humans to be like himself. So whoever kills a person must be killed by another person.
So you must treat clean animals differently from unclean animals. You must also treat clean birds differently from unclean birds. Don't eat any of these unclean birds or animals or things that crawl on the ground. I have made these things unclean.
May all the people living in the desert bow down to him. May all his enemies bow before him with their faces in the dirt.
You will be pulled to the ground. Your voice will rise from the ground like the voice of a ghost. Your words come like a whisper from the dirt."
Wolves and little lambs will eat together. Lions will eat hay like cattle, and snakes will eat only dust. They will not hurt or destroy each other on my holy mountain." This is what the Lord said.
They will crawl in the dust like a snake. They will shake with fear. They will be like insects crawling from their holes in the ground and coming to the Lord our God. God, they will fear and respect you!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision,.... The same with the valley of Jehoshaphat before mentioned; which shows that not any valley of that name is intended, but a certain place so called from the judgments of God in it; and here named "the valley of decision", because here their judgment will be determined, as Kimchi and Jarchi; and at this time the controversy between God, and his people's enemies, will be decided, and at an end: or "the valley of concision", as the Vulgate Latin version; because in this place, and at this time, the nations gathered together in it will be cut to pieces: or, as others, "the valley of threshing" p; because, as, in Jehoshaphat's time, the Moabites and Ammonites were threshed by the Jews in the valley of Berachah, to which the allusion is; so at this time the antichristian kings and their armies will be threshed and beaten, and destroyed by the men of Judah, God's professing people; see Micah 4:13; these seem to be the words of the prophet, breaking out into this pathetic exclamation, upon a sight of the vast multitudes gathered together in this valley, and slain in it; and the doubling of the word serves to express the prodigious number of them: and this shows that this prophecy refers either to the vast army of the Turks, under the name of Gog, and the great slaughter that will be made of them; and that this valley may be the same with the valley of Hamongog, that is, the valley of the multitude of Gog, where their multitude of slain shall be buried, Ezekiel 39:11; or to that vast carnage of the antichristian kings and their armies at Armageddon,
Revelation 16:14; the Targum is,
"armies, armies, in the valley of the division of judgment:''
for the day of the Lord [is] near in the valley of decision; that is, the great and terrible day of the Lord, to take vengeance on all the antichristian powers, both eastern and western, is nigh at hand, which will be done in this valley.
p בעמק החרוץ "in valle triturationis", Piscatsr.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The prophet continues, as in amazement at the great throng assembling upon one another, “multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision,” as though, whichever way he looked, there were yet more of these “tumultuous masses,” so that there was nothing beside them. It was one living, surging, boiling, sea: throngs upon throngs, mere throngs! . The word rendered “multitudes” suggests, besides, the thought of the hum and din of these masses thronging onward, blindly, to their own destruction. They all “tumultuously rage together, and imagine a vain thing, against the Lord and against His Christ” Psalms 2:1-2; but the place where they are gathered, (although they know it not,) is the “valley of decision,” i. e., of “sharp, severe judgment.” The valley is the same as that before called “the valley of Jehoshaphat;” but whereas that name only signifies “God judgeth,” this further name denotes the strictness of God’s judgment. The word signifies “cut,” then “decided;” then is used of severe punishment, or destruction decided and decreed , by God.
For the Day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision - Their gathering against God shall be a token of His coming to judge them. They come to fulfill their own ends; but His shall be fulfilled on them. They are left to bring about their own doom; and being abandoned by Him, rush on the more blindly because it is at hand. When their last sin is committed, their last defiance of God spoken or acted against Him, it is come. At all times, indeed, “the Lord is at hand” Philippians 4:5. It may be, that we are told, that the whole future revealed to us “must shortly come to pass” Revelation 1:1, in order to show that all time is a mere nothing, a moment, a dream, when it is gone. Yet here it is said, relatively, not to us, but to the things foretold, that it “is near” to come.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. Multitudes, multitudes — המנים המנים hamonim, hamonim, crowds upon crowds, in the valley of decision, or excision: the same as the valley of Jehoshaphat, the place where God is to execute judgment on his enemies.
