John Trapp on Joel 3:14

Verſe 14. Multitudes, Multitudes in the vally of deciſion] Or Conciſion, (as Hierom and Tremellius) or of threſhing, as Piſcator, in reference to Iehoſaphat, who once threſhed the Moabites and Ammonites there. Theſe multitudes are thither ſummoned (Turbae, Turbae adeſte) or are there lay'd dead, even heapes upon heapes, with thoſe Philiſtines Judg. 15.16. So Aben-Ezra ſenſeth it, and thence the name of the valley of Conciſion or deciſion: to ſhew that there God, having paſſed a definitive ſentence upon the Churches enemies, and a very ſevere one too, ſuch as was that kind of puniſhment, to put men under harrowes of iron &c. 2 Sam. 12.31. Am. 1.3. would now finiſh the work and cut it ſhort in righteouſneſſe. Rom. 9.28. idque citò & certò, as ſure and as ſoon, as if that day of ſlaughter were at next doore by.

for the day of the Lord is neere] Lyra underſtands it of the laſt day, which cannot be far off. And Diodate was of the ſame mind. For upon the next words