Joel 3:5

5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a]

Joel 3:5 in Other Translations

KJV
5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
ESV
5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
NLT
5 You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples.
MSG
5 You robbed me, cleaned me out of silver and gold, carted off everything valuable to furnish your own temples.
CSB
5 For you took My silver and gold and carried My finest treasures to your temples.

Joel 3:5 In-Context

3 They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.
4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.
5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.

Cross References 1

  • 1. S 1 Kings 15:18; S 2 Chronicles 21:16-17

Footnotes 1

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