Joel 3:5

5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.

Joel 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 3:5

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold
Which is all the Lord's, ( Haggai 2:8 ) ; or which he had bestowed upon his people, and they had taken from them: and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things;
either the rich furniture of the houses of his people, which they carried into their own houses, or "palaces" ^F5, as it may be rendered; having either taken them away themselves, or bought them of others that had taken them: or else the rich vessels of the temple; as these were carried away by the Chaldeans, and put into their idol temples, ( Daniel 1:2 ) ; so afterward they were taken by the Romans, and put into the temples of their gods: whether any of these came into the hands of the Tyrians by any means, and were put into their idol temples, as the temple of Hercules, is not certain; however, it is notorious that the Papists, the Tyrians are an emblem of, not only build stately temples, and dedicate them to angels and saints, but most profusely adorn them with gold and silver, and all goodly and desirable things; which is putting them to an idolatrous use they were not designed for.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (Mkylkyhl) "in palatia vestra", Montanus, Drusius, Burkius.

Joel 3:5 In-Context

3 For my people they cast lots, and {they traded} the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank [it].

4 What [are] you to me, [O] Tyre and [O] Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying to me what is deserved? If you [are] recompensing me, I will return swiftly [and] quickly what you deserve on your head!

5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.

6 And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border.

7 Look! I [am] rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!