Joel 3:8

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken it.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

In Context

7Therefore, behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither you⌃ have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.

9Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; + 3:9 Gr. sanctify. declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all you⌃ men of war.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:30How + 32:30 Gr. shall. should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

Judges 4:2And the Lord sold the children of Israel into the hand of Jabin king of Chanaan, who ruled in Asor; and the chief of his host was Sisara, and he lived in Arisoth of the Gentiles.

Job 1:15and the spoilers came and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I having escaped alone am come to tell you.

Isaiah 60:14And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you + 60:14 Lit. having feared. in fear; and you shall be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 23:42and they raised a sound of music, and that with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads;

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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