Joel 3:3

3 Lançaram sortes sobre o meu povoe deram meninos em troca de prostitutas;venderam meninas por vinho, para se embriagarem.

Joel 3:3 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 3:3

And they have cast lots for my people
Not only parted their land, but cast lots for their persons, Or played at dice for them, how many captives each soldier should have, and which should be their share and property: ninety seven thousand Jews, Josephus ^F4 says, were carried captive by the Romans, who, very probably, cast lots for them, as was usual in such cases; see ( Nahum 3:10 ) ; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they
might drink;
either they gave a boy to be prostituted to natural lusts, in lieu of a whore; and a girl to be debauched for a bottle of wine: or they gave a boy for the price of a whore, as the Targum and Kimchi interpret it; that is, they gave a boy, instead of money, to a whore, to lie with her, as the eunuch was given to Thais; and they gave a girl to the wine merchant for as much wine as they could drink at one sitting. These phrases both express their uncleanness and intemperance, and also the low price and value they set upon their captives; and is applicable enough to the Papists, notorious for the same abominable lusts.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3.

Joel 3:3 In-Context

1 “Sim, naqueles dias e naquele tempo,quando eu restaurar a sorte de Judá e de Jerusalém,

2 reunirei todos os povose os farei descer ao vale de Josafá.Ali os julgareipor causa da minha herança—Israel, o meu povo—;pois o espalharam entre as naçõese repartiram entre si a minha terra.

3 Lançaram sortes sobre o meu povoe deram meninos em troca de prostitutas;venderam meninas por vinho, para se embriagarem.

4 “O que vocês têm contra mim, Tiro, Sidom, e todas as regiões da Filístia? Vocês estão me retribuindo algo que eu fiz a vocês? Se estão querendo vingar-se de mim, ágil e veloz me vingarei do que vocês têm feito.

5 Pois roubaram a minha prata e o meu ouro e levaram para os seus templos os meus tesouros mais valiosos.