◄ Joel 3:3 ►
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Good News Translation
They threw dice to decide who would get the captives. They sold boys and girls into slavery to pay for prostitutes and wine.

New Revised Standard Version
and cast lots for my people, and traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it down.

Contemporary English Version
and gambled to see who would get my people; they sold boys and girls to pay for prostitutes and wine.

New American Bible
For my people they cast lots, trading a young boy for the price of a prostitute, exchanging a young girl for the wine they drank.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.

2 Chronicles 28:8,9 And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria. . . .

Amos 2:6 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

Obadiah 1:11 For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.

Nahum 3:10 Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.

Revelation 18:13 And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots: and slaves and souls of men.

Context
The LORD Judges the Nations
…2I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land. 3And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.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.…
Cross References
Job 6:27
You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

Ezekiel 27:13
Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants, they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.

Joel 1:5
Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.

Amos 2:6
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

Obadiah 1:11
For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.

Nahum 3:10
Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.

Joel 3:2
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