12 “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there I will sit to (A)judge all the surrounding nations.

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(A)I will also gather all nations,
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
And I (B)will enter into judgment with them there
On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
They have also divided up My land.

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He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning [a]hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.

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  1. Isaiah 2:4 knives

    before the Lord,
(A)For He is coming to judge the earth.
With righteousness He shall judge the world,
And the peoples with [a]equity.

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  1. Psalm 98:9 uprightness

13     before the Lord.
For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth.
(A)He shall judge the world with righteousness,
And the peoples with His truth.

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Oppression and Luxury Condemned

13 The Lord stands up (A)to [a]plead,
And stands to judge the people.

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  1. Isaiah 3:13 contend, plead His case

He shall judge between many peoples,
And rebuke strong nations afar off;
They shall beat their swords into (A)plowshares,
And their spears into [a]pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
(B)Neither shall they learn war anymore.

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  1. Micah 4:3 pruning knives

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For (A)the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

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Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
(A)Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies;
(B)Rise up [a]for me to the judgment You have commanded!

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  1. Psalm 7:6 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX O Lord my God

Christ on a White Horse

11 (A)Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, (B)a white horse. And He who sat on him was called (C)Faithful and True, and (D)in righteousness He judges and makes war.

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And in that day His feet will stand (A)on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
(B)Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.

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The Burial of Gog

11 “It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of [a]Hamon Gog.

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  1. Ezekiel 39:11 Lit. The Multitude of Gog

For (A)the day is near,
Even the day of the Lord is near;
It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.

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The Lord is (A)at Your right hand;
He shall [a]execute kings (B)in the day of His wrath.
He shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the places with dead bodies,
(C)He shall [b]execute the heads of many countries.

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  1. Psalm 110:5 Lit. break kings in pieces
  2. Psalm 110:6 Lit. break in pieces

(A)You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
(B)The earth feared and was still,
When God (C)arose to judgment,
To deliver all the oppressed of the earth. Selah

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26 And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of [a]Berachah, for there they blessed the Lord; therefore the name of that place was called The Valley of Berachah until this day.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 20:26 Lit. Blessing

Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
(A)You shall [a]break them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”

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  1. Psalm 2:9 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. rule (cf. Rev. 2:27)

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