Joel 3:5

(4:5) Because my silver and my gold have ye taken, and the handsomest of my precious things have ye carried into your temples;

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

In Context

4(4:4) And also ye, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all ye districts of Philistia? is this the recompense which ye repay me? or do ye only commence to render me evil?— swiftly and speedily will I bring back your recompense upon your own head;

6(4:6) And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Jevanim, in order to remove them far from their borders.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 5:2And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

2 Kings 16:8And Achaz took the silver and the gold that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [the same] to the king of Assyria as a bribe.

2 Kings 24:13And 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 the king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had spoken.

2 Chronicles 21:16And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that are alongside of the Cushim:

Jeremiah 23:7Therefore, behold, days are coming, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, As the Lord liveth, who hath brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord hath awakened the spirit of the kings of Media; for against Babylon is his intention, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.

Matthew Henry on Joel 3:2-9

Threatenings against Israel's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 4… Read the whole commentary →

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