Joel 3:5
Good News Translation
You have taken my silver and gold and carried my rich treasures into your temples.

New Revised Standard Version
For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.

Contemporary English Version
You've taken my prized possessions, including my silver and gold, and carried them off to your temples.

New American Bible
You took my silver and my gold and brought my priceless treasures into your temples!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For you have taken away my silver, and my gold: and my desirable, and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For you have taken away my silver, and my gold: and my desirable, and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.

ye.

2 Kings 12:18 Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things, which Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda, had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and all the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria, and he went off from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 16:8 And when he had gathered together the silver and gold that could be found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, he sent it for a present to the king of the Assyrians.

2 Kings 18:15,16 And Ezechias gave all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures. . . .

2 Kings 24:13 And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kings 25:13-17 And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. . . .

Jeremiah 50:28 The voice of them that flee, and of them that have escaped out of the land of Babylon: to declare in Sion the revenge of the Lord our God, the revenge of his temple.

Jeremiah 51:11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

Daniel 5:2,3 And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them. . . .

into.

1 Samuel 5:2-5 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. . . .

pleasant.

Daniel 11:38 But he shall worship the god Maozim, in his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not, he shall worship with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and things of great price.

Context
The LORD Judges the Nations
4But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head. 5For you have taken away my silver, and my gold: and my desirable, and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.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.…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:18
Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things, which Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda, had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and all the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria, and he went off from Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 21:16
And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.

2 Chronicles 21:17
And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, his sons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz, who was the youngest.

Joel 3:4
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