Joel 3:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְקִבַּצְתִּי֙ אֶת־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם וְה֣וֹרַדְתִּ֔ים אֶל־עֵ֖מֶק יְהֽוֹשָׁפָ֑ט וְנִשְׁפַּטְתִּ֨י עִמָּ֜ם שָׁ֗ם עַל־עַמִּ֨י וְנַחֲלָתִ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּזְּר֣וּ בַגּוֹיִ֔ם וְאֶת־אַרְצִ֖י חִלֵּֽקוּ

Transliteration

And-qibbāṣtî ʾeṯ-all-the-gôyim and-hôraḏtîm to-ʿēmeq yəhôšāp̄āṭ and-nišpaṭtî with-them there concerning-ʿammî and-naḥălāṯî yiśrāʾēl which pizzərû among-the-gôyim and-ʾeṯ-ʾarṣî ḥillēqû

Grammar Details

• *wəqibbāṣtî*: conjunction + piel perfect 1st person singular - and I will gather
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *kāl-haggôyim*: construct + definite article + masculine plural noun - all the nations
• *wəhôraḏtîm*: conjunction + hiphil perfect 1st person singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and I will bring them down
• *ʾel-ʿēmeq*: preposition + masculine singular construct - to the valley of
• *yəhôšāp̄āṭ*: proper noun - Jehoshaphat
• *wənišpaṭtî*: conjunction + niphal perfect 1st person singular - and I will enter into judgment
• *ʿimmām*: preposition + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - with them
• *šām*: adverb - there
• *ʿal-ʿammî*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - concerning my people
• *wənaḥălāṯî*: conjunction + feminine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - and my inheritance
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/who
• *pizzərû*: piel perfect 3rd person plural - they scattered
• *baggôyim*: preposition + definite article + masculine plural noun - among the nations
• *wəʾeṯ-ʾarṣî*: conjunction + direct object marker + feminine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - and my land
• *ḥillēqû*: piel perfect 3rd person plural - they divided

Word Meanings

• *qibbāṣtî*: gather/assemble/collect
• *hôraḏtîm*: bring down/lead down
• *ʿēmeq yəhôšāp̄āṭ*: Valley of Jehoshaphat/Valley of YHWH's judgment
• *nišpaṭtî*: enter into judgment/contend/judge
• *pizzərû*: scattered/dispersed
• *ḥillēqû*: divided/partitioned/apportioned

Referenced Verses

• Isa 66:16 : 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 ¶ Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
• Zech 14:2-4 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 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 cleave 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.
• Ezek 38:22 : 22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that [are] with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
• Ezek 39:11 : 11 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 Hamongog.
• Joel 3:12 : 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
• Jer 25:31 : 31 A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
• Zech 12:3-4 : 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
• Ezek 35:10 : 10 ¶ Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
• Rev 16:16 : 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
• Rev 18:20-21 : 20 Rejoice over her, [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
• Rev 19:19-21 : 19 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. 20 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. 21 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.
• Rev 20:8 : 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom [is] as the sand of the sea.
• 2 Chr 20:26 : 26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
• Ezek 36:5 : 5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
• Rev 16:6 : 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
• Rev 16:14 : 14 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.
• Jer 49:1 : 1 ¶ Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
• Ezek 25:8 : 8 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah [is] like unto all the heathen;
• Jer 12:14 : 14 ¶ Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
• Amos 1:11 : 11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
• Obad 1:10-16 : 10 ¶ For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. 11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them. 12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity; 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. 16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
• Zeph 2:8-9 : 8 ¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified [themselves] against their border. 9 Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. 10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of the LORD of hosts.
• Rev 11:18 : 18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.