Joel 3 · Verse 14

Joel 3:14

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Joel 3:14, King James Version

Joel 3:14 in other translations

BSBMultitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
WEBMultitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
ASVMultitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
YLTMultitudes, multitudes are in the valley of decision, For near is the day of Jehovah in the valley of decision.
DARBYMultitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.
BBEMasses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
WebsterMultitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

What does Joel 3:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. The prophet in vision seeing the immense array of nations congregating, exclaims, "Multitudes, multitudes!" a Hebraism for immense multitudes. valley of decision--that is, the valley in which they are to meet their "determined doom." The same as "the valley of Jehoshaphat," that is, "the valley of judgment" (see on Joe 3:2). Compare Joe 3:12, "there will I sit to judge," which confirms English Version rather than Margin, "threshing." The repetition of "valley of decision" heightens the effect and pronounces the awful certainty of their doom.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joel 3:9-17

Here is a challenge to all the enemies of God's people. There is no escaping God's judgments; hardened sinners, in that day of wrath, shall be cut off from all comfort and joy. Most of the prophets foretell the same final victory of the church of God over all that oppose it. To the wicked it will be a terrible day, but to the righteous it will be a joyful day. What cause have those who possess an interest in Christ…

Read the full comment on Joel 3:9-17 →

Joel 3:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הֲמוֹנִ֣יםha.mo.NimmultitudesH1995
הֲמוֹנִ֔יםha.mo.NimmultitudesH1995
בְּעֵ֖מֶקbe.'E.mek[are] in [the] valley ofH6010
הֶֽחָר֑וּץhe.cha.Rutz<the> decisionH2742
כִּ֤יkiforH3588
קָרוֹב֙ka.rOv[is] nearH7138
י֣וֹםYom[the] day ofH3117
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068
בְּעֵ֖מֶקbe.'E.mekin [the] valley ofH6010
הֶחָרֽוּץ\׃he.cha.Rutz<the> decisionH2742

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Cross references for Joel 3:14

  • Isaiah 34:2-8

    For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. …

  • Joel 3:2

    I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

  • Philippians 3:2

    Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

  • Revelation 16:14-16

    For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

  • Joel 1:15

    Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

  • 2 Peter 3:7

    But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

  • Joel 2:1

    Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

  • Revelation 19:19-21

    And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

  • Isaiah 63:1-7

    Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. …

  • Ezekiel 38:8-23

    After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, …

  • Ezekiel 39:8-20

    Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon–gog. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
multitudes.
2; Isa 34:2-8; 63:1-7; Eze 38:8-23; 39:8-20; Re 16:14-16; 19:19-21
decision. or, concision.
Php 3:2
or, threshing. for.
2:1; Ps 37:13; 2Pe 3:7

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Context

  • Joel 3:13

    Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

  • Joel 3:14

    Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

  • Joel 3:15

    The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

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Joel 3:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Muchos pueblos en el valle de la decisión: porque cercano está el día de Jehová en el valle de la decisión.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Getümmel Getümmel im Tale der Entscheidung; denn nahe ist der Tag Jehovas im Tale der Entscheidung.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Populi, populi, in valle concisionis, quia juxta est dies Domini in valle concisionis.