Joel 3:5

You who have taken my silver and my gold, and you have brought my goodly jewels into your palaces,

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

In Context

4What are you to me, Tyre and Sidon and all the districts of Philistia? Were you repaying any deed of mine, or were you doing something for me? Quickly will I return your deed upon your heads.

6you have sold the people of Judah and of Jerusalem to the Greeks, so that you might remove them far from their own borders.

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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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