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Joel · chapter 3 · verse 5
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:Joel 3:5 · King James Version
Joel 3:5 in context
3And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- carriedbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- templeshêykâla large public building, such as a palace or templeH1964 →
- silverkeçephsilverH3701 →
- goodlyṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- takenlâqachto takeH3947 →
- goldzâhâbgold, figuratively, something gold-colored , as oil, a clear skyH2091 →
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We have often heard of the year of the redeemed, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion; now here we have a description of the transactions of that year, and a prophecy of what shall be done when it comes, whenever it comes, for it comes often, and at the end of time it will come once for all. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8