Joel Chapter 3 verse 14 Holy Bible
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
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Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.
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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.
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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
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Multitudes, multitudes `are' in the valley of decision, For near `is' the day of Jehovah in the valley of decision.
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Joel 3 : 14 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - This and the following verses, instead of expressly narrating the execution of the Divine command, present a picture of it. In one part the prophet sees in vision and shows us pictorially the multitudes of the nations pouring on in one continuous stream into the fatal valley. In another compartment of the picture, Jehovah is seen in the awfulness of his majesty and in the fearfulness of his judgments on the wicked, while he is a Refuge and Strength for his people. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision. These multitudes are the tumultuous masses. Hamon is from the root הָמָה, to be noisy, or tumultuous. "It is identical," says Pusey, "with our ' hum; ' then noise, and, among others, the hum of a multitude, then a multitude even apart from that noise. It is used of the throng of a large army." The repetition emphasizes the masses as pits, pits, equivalent to "nothing but pits;" or ditches, ditches, equivalent to "full of ditches;" or it expresses diversity, equivalent to "multitudes of the living and multitudes of the dead." Decision is charuts, cut, something decided; (1) so sharp, severe judgment, from chafers, to cut into, sharpen, dig. (2) Others understand it in the sense of a threshing-wain, equivalent to charuts morag, a sharpened threshing-instrument. All things being now ready, the immediate proximity of the judgment is announced to be at hand.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Multitudes.--The command has gone forth; it is obeyed; and the prophet stands aghast at the vast multitudes assembling in the valley of decision, the place of judgment.