Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

7Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:68The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

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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