New American Standard Bible 2020
Joel 3:5
Joel 3:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
- New International Version (NIV)For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Because you have taken My silver and My gold, And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.
Context of Joel 3:5
3They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine so that they may drink. 4Moreover, what are you to Me, Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying Me with retribution? But if you are showing Me retribution, swiftly and speedily I will return your retribution on your head! Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, 6and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, 7behold, I am going to stir them up from the place where you have sold them, and return your retribution on your head.
Read all of Joel 3Joel 3:5 word by word
אֲשֶׁר־כַּסְפִּ֥י וּזְהָבִ֖י לְקַחְתֶּ֑ם וּמַֽחֲמַדַּי֙ הַטֹּבִ֔ים הֲבֵאתֶ֖ם לְהֵיכְלֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Joel 3:5
- 2 Kings 12:18So Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred offerings that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own sacred offerings, and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he withdrew from Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 16:8And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent a gift to the king of Assyria.
- 2 Kings 18:15Hezekiah then gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house.
- 2 Kings 24:13He also brought out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and he smashed all the articles of gold that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, just as the Lord had said.
- 2 Kings 25:13Now the Chaldeans smashed to pieces the bronze pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze Sea which were in the house of the Lord, and carried the bronze to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:28There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, Vengeance for His temple.
- Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, Because His plan is against Babylon to destroy it; For it is the vengeance of the Lord, vengeance for His temple.
- Daniel 5:2While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them.
- 1 Samuel 5:2Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon, and placed it beside Dagon.
- Daniel 11:38But instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver, precious stones, and treasures.
Commentaries on Joel 3:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Ye have taken my silver and my gold - The Chaldeans had spoiled the temple, and carried away the sacred vessels, and put them in the temple of their own god in Babylon.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Ye have taken My silver and My gold - Not the silver and gold of the temple, (as some have thought.) At least, up to the prophet‘s time, they had not done this. For the inroad of the Philistines in the reign of Jehoram was, apparently, a mere marauding expedition, in which they killed and plundered, but are not said to have besieged or taken any city, much less Jerusalem. God calls “the silver and gold” which He, through His Providence, had bestowed on…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. 55. my silver ... my gold--that is, the gold and silver of My people. The Philistines and Arabians had carried off all the treasures of King Jehoram's house (2Ch 21:16, 17). Compare also 1Ki 15:18; 2Ki 12:18; 14:14, for the spoiling of the treasures of the temple and the king's palace in Judah by Syria. It was customary among the heathen to hang up in the idol temples some of the spoils of war as presents to their gods.Read the comment
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Notes
- 1. Joel 3:5 2 Kin 12:18; 2 Chr 21:16, 17 ↩
- 2. Joel 3:5 Lit goodly things ↩
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
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