Joel 3:6

Joel 3:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
• New International Version (NIV)You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their borders.
• New Living Translation (NLT)You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, so they could take them far from their homeland.

Context of Joel 3:6

4"What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. 5For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. 7Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. 8I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken."

Joel 3:6 word by word

וּבְנֵ֤י יְהוּדָה֙ וּבְנֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם מְכַרְתֶּ֖ם לִבְנֵ֣י הַיְּוָנִ֑ים לְמַ֥עַן הַרְחִיקָ֖ם מֵעַ֥ל גְּבוּלָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The childrenבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• also of Judahיְהוּדָהyehûdâh · JudahH3063
• of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
• have ye soldמָכַרmâkar · to sellH4376
• unto the Greciansיְוָנִיyevânîy · GreekH3125
• that ye might remove them farרָחַקrâchaq · to removeH7368
• from their borderגְּבוּלgebûl gebûl · border: boundaryH1366

Cross-references for Joel 3:6

• Joel 3:3and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
• Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.
• Ezekiel 27:13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

Commentaries on Joel 3:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Sold unto the Grecians - These were the descendants of Javan, Genesis 10:2-5. And with them the Tyrians trafficked, Ezekiel 27:19. That ye might remove them far from their border - Intending to send them as far off as possible, that it might be impossible for them to get back to reclaim the land of which you had dispossessed them.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6The children also - Literally, “And the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem have ye sold to the sons of the Greeks.” This sin of the Tyrians was probably old and inveterate. The Tyrians, as they were the great carriers of the world‘s traffic, so they were slave-dealers, and, in the earliest times, men-stealers. The Greek ante-historic tradition exhibits them, as trading and selling women, from both Greece and Egypt. As their trade became more fixed…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-6The Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon, along with the cities of Philistia, were guilty of stealing valuable treasures from Jerusalem. They also sold the people of Jerusalem as slaves to the Greeks (see Amos 1:6, 9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Grecians--literally, "Javanites," that is, the Ionians, a Greek colony on the coast of Asia Minor who were the first Greeks known to the Jews. The Greeks themselves, however, in their original descent came from Javan (Ge 10:2, 4). Probably the germ of Greek civilization in part came through the Jewish slaves imported into Greece from Phoenicia by traffickers. Eze 27:13 mentions Javan and Tyre as trading in the persons of men. far from their border--far…Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 3:6

• Captive
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Joel
• Servant
• Sidon

In the dictionaries

• Jerusalem
• Judah
• Judah, kingdom of Judah
• Judea, Judah
• Flow
• Grecians
• Harvest
• Hope
• Wake
• Eschatology of the Old Testament

Commentaries on Joel 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings