Joel 3:5

because you⌃ have taken my silver and my gold, and you⌃ have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;

LXX2012 (US English)

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

4And what have you⌃ to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the + 3:4 ἀλλοφυλων, usually Philistines. Gentiles? do you⌃ render me a recompense? or do you⌃ bear malice against me? quickly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own heads:

6and you⌃ have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that you⌃ might expel them from their coasts.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 5:2And the Philistines took the ark of the Lord, 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 was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king's house, and sent gifts to the king.

2 Kings 24:13And he brought forth thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and he cut up all the golden vessels which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 21:16So the Lord stirred up the Philistines against Joram, and the Arabians, and those who bordered on the Aethiopians:

Jeremiah 23:7Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

Jeremiah 51:11Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold I do set my face against you

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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