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Joe_3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.
Ver. 14. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision] Or concision, as Jerome and Tremellius, or of threshing, as Piscator, in reference to Jehoshaphat, who once threshed the Moabites and Ammonites there. These multitudes are thither summoned ( Turbae, Turbae adeste), or are there laid dead, even heaps upon heaps, with those Philistines, Jdg_15:16. So Aben Ezra senseth it, and thence the name of the valley of concision, or decision: to show that their having passed a definitive sentence upon the Church’s enemies, and a very severe one too, such as was that kind of punishment, to put men under harrows of iron, &c., 2Sa_12:31 Amo_1:3, would now finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Rom_9:28, idque cito et certo, as sure and as soon as if that day of slaughter were at next door by.
For the day of the Lord is near] Lyra understands it of the last day, which cannot be far off; and Diodati was of the same mind; for upon the next words,