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Joel 3:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples, "

Joel 3:5

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3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;

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Jeremiah 15:13

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"I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders."

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Sirach 28:24

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"As you hedge your possession about with thorns, and secure your silver and your gold,"

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Jeremiah 17:3

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"My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders."

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Ezra 7:15

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"and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,"

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2 Kings 24:13

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"He carried out from there all the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the LORD’s temple, as the LORD had said."

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2 Chronicles 21:16-17

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"The LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;"

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From This Chapter

Joel 3:1

"“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,"

Joel 3:2

"I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,"

Joel 3:3

"and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink."

Joel 3:4

"“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head."

Joel 3:6

"and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border."

Joel 3:7

"Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;"

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