6and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.


In Context

3 and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

4 Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;

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

6 and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.

8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken.

Joel 3:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold to the Grecians, that you might remove them far from their border.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:6And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:6and 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;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:6the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6and 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.