Joel 3:7

Look, I am about to stir them up, out of the place where you sold them, 1 and will return payment on your own head. 1

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In The King James Version

Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

In Context

6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, 1 in order to remove them far from their territory. 1

8I will sell your sons and your daughters, 1 by the hand of the people of Judah. 1 They will sell them to the Sabeans, 1 to a nation far off, 1 for Yahweh has spoken.” 1

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Cross References

Judges 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, who had their thumbs and their big toes cut off, gathered their food from under my table. As I have done, even so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's rage died down.

Isaiah 43:5Do not be afraid, for I am with you; 1 I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west. 1

Jeremiah 23:8Instead they will say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led back the descendants of the house of Israel from the northern land and all the lands where they had been driven.' Then they will live in their own land.” 1

Jeremiah 30:16So everyone who consumes you will be consumed, and all of your adversaries will go into captivity. 1 For the ones who have plundered you will become plunder, and I will make all of the ones despoiling you a spoil. 1

Jeremiah 32:37See, I am about to gather them from every land where I had driven them in my wrath, fury, and great anger. I am about to bring them back to this place and enable them to live in security.

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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