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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.
There are many, many people in the Valley of Decision. The Lord 's special day is near 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.
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
But and the serpent was feller than alle lyuynge beestis of erthe, whiche the Lord God hadde maad. Which serpent seide to the womman, Why comaundide God to you, that ye schulden not ete of ech tre of paradis?
Y schal sette enemytees bitwixe thee and the womman, and bitwixe thi seed and hir seed; sche schal breke thin heed, and thou schalt sette aspies to hir heele.
And Adam clepide the name of his wijf Eue, for sche was the moder of alle men lyuynge.
Who euere schedith out mannus blood, his blood schal be sched; for man is maad to the ymage of God.
Therfor also ye departe a cleene beeste fro vnclene, and a cleene brid fro vncleene, lest ye defoule youre soulis in a beeste, and in briddis, and in alle thingis that ben moued in erthe, and whiche thingis Y schewide to you to be defoulid.
Ethiopiens schulen falle doun bifore hym; and hise enemyes schulen licke the erthe.
Thou schalt be maad low, thou schalt speke of erthe, and thi speche schal be herd fro the erthe; and thi vois schal be as the vois of a deed man reisid bi coniuring, and thi speche schal ofte grutche of the erthe.
A wolf and a lomb schulen be fed togidere, and a lioun and an oxe schulen ete stree, and to a serpent dust schal be his breed; thei schulen not anoie, nether schulen sle, in al myn hooli hil, seith the Lord.
thei schulen licke dust as a serpent; as crepynge thingis of erthe thei schulen be disturblid of her housis; thei schulen not desire oure Lord God, and thei schulen drede thee.
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.
