Devine Scripture

Joel 3:5

Joel chapter 3 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

Context

v.4Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.

v.5This passage

v.6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 51:11

    Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

  • Daniel 11:38

    But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.

  • 2 Chronicles 21:16

    And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians:

  • Daniel 5:2

    Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink therefrom.

  • 1 Samuel 5:2

    And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

  • 2 Kings 16:8

    And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.