Joel 3:5 “For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to…”

Joel 3:5

For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.

Darby Translation

because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,

Young's Literal Translation

In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.

Bible in Basic English

For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

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Cross references

“ye”

2 Kings 24:13 2 Kings 12:18 2 Kings 16:8 2 Kings 25:13–17 Jeremiah 50:28 Jeremiah 51:11

2 Kings 24:13 · BSB

As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple…

2 Kings 12:18 · BSB

So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house…

2 Kings 16:8 · BSB

Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 25:13–17 · BSB

Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:28 · BSB

Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

Jeremiah 51:11 · BSB

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.

“into”

1 Samuel 5:2–5

1 Samuel 5:2–5 · BSB

carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.

“pleasant”

Daniel 11:38

Daniel 11:38 · BSB

And in their place, he will honor a god of fortresses—a god his fathers did not know—with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.

Also

2 Chronicles 21:16–17

2 Chronicles 21:16–17 · BSB

Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Now 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.

6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

Read Joel 3