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Joel 3:6
Joel 3:6 is verse 6 of Joel chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
Or to the peoples of Javan
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
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Joel 3:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
5 For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
7 Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
8 I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
Joel 3:8I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
Deuteronomy 28:68The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
Ezekiel 27:13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your merchandise.