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, Judges 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., 2 Samuel 12:31 Amos 1:3, would now finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Romans 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,