1For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,[ † ]Jeremiah 30:3Ezekiel 38:14 2I 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.[ † ]Isaiah 66:18Micah 4:12Zechariah 14:2Isaiah 66:16Jeremiah 25:31Ezekiel 38:22 3And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.[ † ]Obadiah 11Nahum 3:10
4Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;[ † ]Isaiah 14:29-31Jeremiah 47:1-7Ezekiel 25:15-17Amos 1:6-8Zechariah 9:5-7 5because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:[ † ]Isaiah 43:5-6Jeremiah 23:8Zechariah 9:13 8and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it .[ † ]Ezekiel 23:42Jeremiah 6:20
9Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:[ † ]Jeremiah 6:4Ezekiel 38:7Micah 3:5 10beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.[ † ]Isaiah 2:4Micah 4:3Zechariah 12:8 11Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord .[ † ]Psalms 103:20Isaiah 13:3 12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.[ † ]Psalms 96:13Isaiah 2:4 13Put 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.[ † ]Matthew 13:39Revelation 14:15Jeremiah 51:33Hosea 6:11Isaiah 63:3Lamentations 1:5Revelation 14:19
14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.[ † ]Joel 2:1 15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.[ † ]Isaiah 51:5-6 17So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.[ † ]Obadiah 16Zechariah 8:3
18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord , and shall water the valley of Shittim.[ † ]Psalms 46:4Ezekiel 47:1Zechariah 14:8Revelation 22:1 19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.[ † ]Isaiah 4:4