Joel 3:5 Parallel Translations
NASB: "Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, (NASB ©1995)
GWT: You took my silver and my gold. You brought my finest treasures to your temples.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
ASV: Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
BBE: For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.
DBY: because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,
ERV: Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things;
JPS: Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly treasures;
WBS: Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.
WEB: Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
YLT: In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.
Joel 3:5 Cross References
XREF:2 Kings 12:18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he went away from Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 21:16 Then the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who bordered the Ethiopians;

2 Chronicles 21:17 and they came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king's house together with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 3:5 Taken - Either as part of the spoil, or as part of your pay. My silver - Silver and gold vessels dedicated to my service.
MHC: 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.
CONC:Beautiful Carried Desirable Finest Forasmuch Gods Gold Goodly Houses Pleasant Pleasing Precious Putting Rich Silver Temples Treasures
PREV:Beautiful Carried Desirable Finest Forasmuch Gods Gold Good Goodly Houses Pleasant Precious Putting Rich Silver Temples Treasures
NEXT:Beautiful Carried Desirable Finest Forasmuch Gods Gold Good Goodly Houses Pleasant Precious Putting Rich Silver Temples Treasures
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