Joel 3:5

Because, my silver and my gold, ye took away,—and, my richly beautiful things, carried ye into your temples;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

4Moreover also, what have, ye, to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the circuit of Palestine? A recompense, are ye paying back unto me? But, though ye should make a recompense unto me, swiftly, speedily, would I return your recompense upon your own head.

6And, the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem, ye sold to the sons of Greece,—that they might be far removed from their own boundary.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 5:2And, when the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon,—and placed it by the side of Dagon.

2 Kings 16:8And Ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasuries of the house of the king,—and sent them to the king of Assyria, as a bribe.

2 Kings 24:13And he carried forth from thence, all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the house of the king,—and he cut off all the fittings of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, according to all that, Yahweh, had spoken.

2 Chronicles 21:16And Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and the Arabians, who were under the direction of the Ethiopians;

Jeremiah 23:7Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When it shall not be said any more As Yahweh liveth, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

Jeremiah 51:11Polish the arrows, Lay hold of the shields,—Yahweh hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, For against Babylon, his purpose is, to destroy her,—For it is, The avenging of Yahweh, The avenging of his temple.

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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