Verse 12
"Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I set to judge all the nations round about.
"Jehoshaphat ..." has the meaning of, "The Lord judges, or has judged."[21] The scene, therefore is the eternal judgment, not that of any earthly event at all. The language is metaphorical. "The figure of a great battle between the nations and the warriors of God is joined to that of the nations gathered around before the judge of all the earth."[22]
"Cause thy mighty ones to come down ..." is a reference to the angels of God, always mentioned in connection with judgment scenes, especially in the N.T. The "mighty ones" are not therefore, in any sense, 'righteous nations' but the angels of heaven; and there is not going to be any kind of a literal conflict on earth to decide the fate of anything; God's fiat will determine that.
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