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


In Context

3 And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.

4 And also, what are ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.

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

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

7 Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,

8 And have sold your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they have sold them to Shabeans, Unto 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 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.