Joel 3:5
3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
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
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
Read in context2 Kings 24:13
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
Read in context2 Kings 16:8
And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
Read in context2 Kings 12:18
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
Read in context2 Kings 18:15–16
And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
Read in contextJeremiah 50:28
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:11
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Read in contextDaniel 5:2–3
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
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