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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
• 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.

Context of Joel 3:6

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! 5Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, and 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. 8I will also sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation,” 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

• and soldמָכַרmâkar · to sellH4376
• sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• of Judahיְהוּדָהyehûdâh · JudahH3063
• and Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
• Greeksיְוָנִיyevânîy · GreekH3125
• inמַ֫עַןma‛an · becauseH4616
• removeרָחַקrâchaq · to removeH7368
• from their territoryגְּבוּלgebûl gebûl · border: boundaryH1366

Cross-references for Joel 3:6

• Joel 3:3They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine so that they may drink.
• Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them constantly; but there will be nothing you can do.
• Ezekiel 27:13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; with human lives and vessels of bronze they paid 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