Joel 3:5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.

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

New American Standard Bible
"Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For you took My silver and gold and carried My finest treasures to your temples.

International Standard Version
since you took my silver and gold, carried my precious treasures into your temples,

American Standard Version
Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

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.

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

Young's Literal Translation
In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.

Cross References

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 Chronicles 21:16
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:

2 Chronicles 21:17
And they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:1-8 The restoration of the Jews, and the final victory of true religion over all opposers, appear to be here foretold. The contempt and scorn with which the Jews have often been treated as a people, and the little value set upon them, are noticed. None ever hardened his heart against God or his church, and prospered long.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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 presents to their gods.