Joel 3:2

World English Bible (2000)

I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided 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 will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "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 on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will 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 will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
• Ezek 38:22 : 22 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
• Ezek 39:11 : 11 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
• Joel 3:12 : 12 "Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
• Jer 25:31 : 31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh.
• Zech 12:3-4 : 3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. 4 In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
• Ezek 35:10 : 10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
• Rev 16:16 : 16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo.
• Rev 18:20-21 : 20 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her." 21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
• Rev 19:19-21 : 19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
• Rev 20:8 : 8 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
• 2 Chr 20:26 : 26 On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah to this day.
• Ezek 36:5 : 5 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
• Rev 16:6 : 6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."
• Rev 16:14 : 14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
• Jer 49:1 : 1 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in its cities?
• Ezek 25:8 : 8 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;
• Jer 12:14 : 14 Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
• Amos 1:11 : 11 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
• Obad 1:10-16 : 10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. 12 But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress. 13 Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. 14 Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
• Zeph 2:8-9 : 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them. 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
• Rev 11:18 : 18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."