Joel 4:9

11 translations of 93 that include the Old Testament

Brenton English Septuagint

Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all ye men of war.

Updated Brenton English Septuagint

Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all ye men of war.

The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible

Proclaim ye this among the Goyim; Prepare milchamah, wake up the gibborim, let all the anshei hamilchamah draw near and attack;

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Croatian Bible

Razglasite ovo među narodima! Posvetite se za rat! Dižite junake! Naprijed, navalite, svi ratnici!

French: Bible J.N. Darby

Proclamez ceci parmi les nations, préparez la guerre, réveillez les hommes forts ; qu’ils approchent, qu’ils montent, tous les hommes de guerre !

German Textbibel

Laßt den Aufruf unter den Nationen ergehen: Rüstet euch zum heiligen Krieg! Feuert die Helden an! Alle Kriegsmänner sollen anrücken und zu Felde ziehen!

SEPTUAGINTA

Κηρύξατε ταῦτα ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, ἁγιάσατε πόλεμον, ἐξεγείρατε τούς μαχητάς, προσαγάγετε καὶ ἀναβαίνετε, πάντες ἄνδρες πολεμισταί.

Brenton Septuagint

Κηρύξατε ταῦτα ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, ἁγιάσατε πόλεμον, ἐξεγείρατε τοὺς μαχητὰς, προσαγάγετε καὶ ἀναβαίνετε πάντες ἄνδρες πολεμισταὶ,

Hebrew Masoretic OT

קִרְאוּ־זֹאת֙ בַּגֹּויִ֔ם קַדְּשׁ֖וּ מִלְחָמָ֑ה הָעִ֙ירוּ֙ הַגִּבֹּורִ֔ים יִגְּשׁ֣וּ יַֽעֲל֔וּ כֹּ֖ל אַנְשֵׁ֥י הַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

Mashi Bible

Abantu boshi mubabwîre ntya: Mucìrheganye oku matabâro. Hamagali entwâli, bayishe barhereme.

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Hebrew OT (WLC)

קִרְאוּ־זֹאת֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם קַדְּשׁ֖וּ מִלְחָמָ֑ה הָעִ֨ירוּ֙ הַגִּבּוֹרִ֔ים יִגְּשׁ֣וּ יַֽעֲל֔וּ כֹּ֖ל אַנְשֵׁ֥י הַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

Attribution

When was this written?

Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 835 BC–800 BC Joel
Placed early, among the ninth-century prophets.
Critical: 400 BC–350 BC Joel
No king is named and the temple is standing, which many read as post-exilic. Joel is the least securely dated book in the prophetic corpus.

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Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (835 BC–350 BC).

1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1200 BC–600 BC Zoroaster teaches in Persia Persia
Founder of Zoroastrianism, whose dating is disputed by as much as six centuries. His teaching on a cosmic struggle between good and evil later touched Jewish and Christian thought.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
1050 BC–800 BC The Phoenician alphabet spreads Levant
A compact consonantal alphabet that became the ancestor of Greek, Latin and Hebrew scripts.
776 BC First recorded Olympiad Greece
The traditional starting point of Greek historical chronology.
753 BC Traditional founding of Rome Rome
The legendary date of Rome's founding, later used as the anchor of the Roman calendar.
745 BC–609 BC Neo-Assyrian empire at its height Mesopotamia
Assyria dominated the Near East, deporting conquered populations as policy, including the northern kingdom of Israel.
620 BC–560 BC Coinage invented in Lydia Anatolia
Stamped electrum coins of guaranteed weight, an idea that spread across the ancient world within a century.

Joel 4:9

Brenton English Septuagint ☆

Updated Brenton English Septuagint ☆

The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible ☆

Croatian Bible ☆

French: Bible J.N. Darby ☆

German Textbibel ☆

SEPTUAGINTA ☆

Brenton Septuagint ☆

Hebrew Masoretic OT ☆

Mashi Bible ☆

Hebrew OT (WLC) ☆