Joel 3:5New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Because, my silver and my gold, ye took away,—and, my richly beautiful things, carried ye into your temples;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— For you have taken away my silver, and my gold: and my desirable, and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Because yee haue taken my siluer and my gold, and haue caried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful vessels;
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and ye have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: |
Because
x834 (0834) Complementאֲשֶׁר'asher{ash-er'}
A primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as adverb and conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
ye have taken
3947 {3947} Primeלָקַחlaqach{law-kakh'}
A primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
my silver
3701 {3701} Primeכֶּסֶףkeceph{keh'-sef}
From H3700; silver (from its pale color); by implication money.
and my gold,
2091 {2091} Primeזָהָבzahab{zaw-hawb'}
From an unused root meaning to shimmer; gold; figuratively something gold colored (that is, yellow), as oil, a clear sky.
and have carried
935 {0935} Primeבּוֹאbow'{bo}
A primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications).
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
into your temples
1964 {1964} Primeהֵיכָלheykal{hay-kawl'}
Probably from H3201 (in the sense of capacity); a large public building, such as a palace or temple.
my goodly
2896 {2896} Primeטוֹבtowb{tobe}
From H2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural ( good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb ( well).
pleasant things:
4261 {4261} Primeמַחְמָדmachmad{makh-mawd'}
From H2530; delightful; hence a delight, that is, object of affection or desire. |
Joel 3:5
_ _ 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 (2 Chronicles 21:16, 2 Chronicles 21:17). Compare also 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 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. |
Joel 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. |
- ye:
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 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. ... At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of the LORD, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
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.
2 Kings 25:13-17 And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. ... The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
Jeremiah 50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Daniel 5:2-3 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. ... Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which [was] at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
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1 Samuel 5:2-5 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. ... Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
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- pleasant:
- Heb. desirable,
Daniel 11:38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
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