Here’s Joel 3 with explanations of the locations: once again, maps below. 👇
I don’t know if I’m even gonna say anything on this one. Other than just read the whole chapter please. Then let’s talk about what’s in this chapter rather than jumping all over the Bible. Hopefully this makes sense.
Again, I removed the numbers for a reason. I also added the exact locations of what this chapter is talking about and a little bit about those locations. Be sure to check out the comments with the Maps.
Joel 3 (NKJV)
“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat (the Kidron Valley, located right next to the Old City of Jerusalem, between the Temple Mount and the Mount of Olives).
And I 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.”
They have cast lots for My people, have given a boy as payment for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
“Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon
(major Phoenician port cities on the coast of modern-day Lebanon), and all the coasts of Philistia? (the coastal area of the Philistines in southwestern Israel)
Will you retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate against Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head; because you have taken My silver and
My gold and have carried My prized possessions into your temples; also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem you have sold to the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their borders.
“Behold, I will raise them out of the place to which you have sold them, and will return your retaliation upon your own head.
I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans (an ancient people from the southern Arabian peninsula, modern-day Yemen), to a people far off; for the Lord has spoken.”
Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’”
Assemble and come, all you nations, and gather together all around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O Lord.
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“Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat (the Kidron Valley next to Jerusalem); for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow — for their wickedness is great.”
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will diminish their brightness.
The Lord also will roar from Zion (Jerusalem), and utter His voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and earth will shake; but the Lord will be a shelter for His people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion My holy mountain (Jerusalem). Then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”
And it will come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip with new wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water;
a fountain shall flow from the house of the Lord and water the Valley of Acacias (also called the Valley of Shittim, located east of the Jordan River in modern-day Jordan).
“Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of violence against the people of Judah, for they have shed innocent blood in their land.
But Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; for the Lord dwells in Zion.”
Maps below👇
This map shows Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. This is the location of the prophesied Battle of Armageddon mentioned in Revelation 16:16. While Joel 3 focuses on the Valley of Jehoshaphat near Jerusalem, many believe Megiddo will also be a major end-times battlefield.
This map shows the Valley of Jehoshaphat (also known as the Kidron Valley) located directly east of Jerusalem’s Old City. The valley runs between the Temple Mount and the Mount of Olives. In Joel 3, this is the exact location where God says He will gather all the nations for judgment during the end times.
A closer view of the Valley of Jehoshaphat and the Mount of Olives. This is the specific area Joel is referring to when he says God will judge the nations “in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.” It’s a real physical location right next to Jerusalem.
