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


In Context

3 They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.

4 "Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.

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

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

7 "See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.

8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away." The Lord has 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6and 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.

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.