Joel 3:5
3 They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
4 Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
7 Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
- KJV
- Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
- WEB
- Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
- ASV
- Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
- DARBY
- because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,
- BLB
- because you⁺ took My silver and My gold, and My precious treasures you⁺ have brought in into your⁺ temples!
- ÅB
- Dere som tok mitt sølv og gull og førte mine dyreste skatter bort til deres templer,
- OTB
- For dere tok mitt sølv og mitt gull og brakte mine fineste skatter til deres templer.
- B1930
- I som tok mitt sølv og gull og førte mine dyreste skatter bort til eders templer,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 21:16–17
Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.
Read in context2 Kings 24:13
As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
Read in context2 Kings 16:8
Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.
Read in context2 Kings 12:18
So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
Read in context2 Kings 18:15–16
Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
Read in contextJeremiah 50:28
Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:11
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.
Read in contextDaniel 5:2–3
Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
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