Joel 3:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

Joel 3:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 21:16-17
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians: …
2 Kings 16:8
And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:15-16
And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. …
2 Kings 12:18
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 24:13
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

We have often heard of the year of the redeemed, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion; now here we have a description of the transactions of that year, and a prophecy of what shall be done when it comes, whenever it comes, for it comes often, and at the end of time it will come once for all. I. It shall be the year of the redeemed, for God will bring again the captivity of Judah…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. my silver ... my gold--that is, the gold and silver of My people. The Philistines and Arabians had carried off all the treasures of King Jehoram’s house (2Ch 21:16, 17). Compare also 1Ki 15:18; 2Ki 12:18; 14:14, for the spoiling of the treasures of the temple and the king’s palace in Judah by Syria. It was customary among the heathen to hang up in the idol temples some of the spoils of war as p…