Joel 3:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יֵע֙וֹרוּ֙ וְיַעֲל֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֶל־עֵ֖מֶק יְהֽוֹשָׁפָ֑ט כִּ֣י שָׁ֗ם אֵשֵׁ֛ב לִשְׁפֹּ֥ט אֶת־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם מִסָּבִֽיב

Transliteration

Yēʿôrû and-yaʿălû the-gôyim to-ʿēmeq yəhôšāp̄āṭ for there ʾēšēḇ to-šəpōṭ ʾeṯ-all-the-gôyim from-sāḇîḇ

Grammar Details

*yēʿôrû*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - let them be aroused
*wəyaʿălû*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - and let them come up
*haggôyim*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the nations
*ʾel-ʿēmeq*: preposition + masculine singular construct - to the valley of
*yəhôšāp̄āṭ*: proper noun - Jehoshaphat
*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*šām*: adverb - there
*ʾēšēḇ*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will sit
*lišpōṭ*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to judge
*ʾeṯ-kāl-haggôyim*: direct object marker + construct + definite article + masculine plural noun - all the nations
*missāḇîḇ*: preposition + adverb - from around/from every side

Word Meanings

*yēʿôrû*: be aroused/be stirred up/be awakened
*yaʿălû*: come up/ascend/go up
*ʿēmeq yəhôšāp̄āṭ*: Valley of Jehoshaphat/Valley of YHWH's judgment
*ʾēšēḇ*: sit/dwell/remain
*šəpōṭ*: judge/govern/vindicate
*missāḇîḇ*: from around/from all sides/surrounding

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Joel 3:2 : 2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,
Ps 96:13 : 13 Before Jehovah; For he cometh, For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with his truth.
Ps 98:9 : 9 Before Jehovah; For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
Isa 2:4 : 4 And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isa 3:13 : 13 Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples.
Ps 7:6 : 6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.
Joel 3:14 : 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
Mic 4:3 : 3 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Zech 14:4 : 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Rev 19:11 : 11 And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon {G846} called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Ps 110:5-6 : 5 The Lord at thy right hand Will strike through kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He will judge among the nations, He will fill [the places] with dead bodies; He will strike through the head in many countries.
Ps 76:8-9 : 8 Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven; The earth feared, and was still, 9 When God arose to judgment, To save all the meek of the earth. {H5542}
2 Chr 20:26 : 26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed Jehovah: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah unto this day.
Ps 2:8-9 : 8 Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Ezek 39:11 : 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop them that pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.

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