Joel 3:6
Good News Translation
You have taken the people of Judah and Jerusalem far from their own country and sold them to the Greeks.

New Revised Standard Version
You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.

Contemporary English Version
You have dragged the people of Judah and Jerusalem from their land and sold them to the Greeks.

New American Bible
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, taking them far from their own country!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And 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.

have ye.

Joel 3:3,8 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. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:32,68 May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand. . . .

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

Grecians.

Context
The LORD Judges the Nations
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.7Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 27:13
Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants, they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.

Zechariah 9:13
Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I will make thee as the sword of the mighty.

Joel 3:5
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