Joel 3:5

Amplified Bible

"Because you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried My precious treasures to your temples and palaces,

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

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

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,

New Century Version
You took my silver and gold, and you put my precious treasures in your temples.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,

Legacy Standard Bible
Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My desirable treasures to your temples,

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

Contemporary English Version
You've taken my prized possessions, including my silver and gold, and carried them off to your temples.

Complete Jewish Bible
At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
You took my silver and gold. You took my precious treasures and put them in your temples.

George Lamsa Translation
Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful vessels;

Good News Translation
You have taken my silver and gold and carried my rich treasures into your temples.

Lexham English Bible
For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.

Literal Translation
in that you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried My good treasures to 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,

Bible in Basic English
For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
[4:5] Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly treasures;

King James Version (1611)
Because yee haue taken my siluer and my gold, and haue caried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, my pleasaunt & pretious thinges, & haue caryed them into your temples.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and ye have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;

English Revised Version
Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things;

World English Bible
Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye token awey my siluer and gold, and ye brouyten my desirable thingis and faireste thingis in to youre templis of idols.

Update Bible Version
Since you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

Webster's Bible Translation
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.

New English Translation
For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

New King James Version
Because you have taken My silver and My gold, And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.

New Living Translation
You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples.

New Life Bible
You have taken My silver and My gold, and brought My riches to your places of worship.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, my silver and my gold, ye took away, - and, my richly beautiful things, carried ye into your temples;

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.

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

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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for ye haue take awaye my syluer & golde, my fayre & goodly Iewels, & brought them in to youre gods houses.

Contextual Overview

¹"For behold, in those [climactic] days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, ²I will gather together all the [Gentile] nations [that were hostile to My people] And bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat (the LORD has judged). And there I will deal with them and enter into judgment with them there For [their treatment of] My people, My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations, And [because] they have encroached on My land and divided it up. ³"They have also cast lots for My people, And have traded a boy for a prostitute And have sold a girl for wine that they may drink. ⁴"Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the [five small] regions of Philistia? Will you pay Me back for something [I have supposedly done to you]? Even if you do pay Me back, I will swiftly and speedily return your deed [of retaliation] on your own head. ⁵"Because you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried My precious treasures to your temples and palaces,⁶and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the Greeks, so that you may send them far away from their territory, ⁷behold, I am going to stir them up from the place where you have sold them [and return them to their land], and I shall return your action [of retaliation] on your own head. ⁸"Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.

Bible Verse Review
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ye: 2 Kings 12:18, 2 Kings 16:8, 2 Kings 18:15, 2 Kings 18:16, 2 Kings 24:13, 2 Kings 25:13-17, Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 51:11, Daniel 5:2, Daniel 5:3

into: 1 Samuel 5:2-5

pleasant: Heb. desirable, Daniel 11:38

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:6 - pleasant Isaiah 23:3 - she is

Cross-References

Genesis 2:17
but [only] from the tree of the knowledge (recognition) of good and evil you shall not eat, otherwise on the day that you eat from it, you shall most certainly die [because of your disobedience]."

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3:3
except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God said, 'You shall not eat from it nor touch it, otherwise you will die.'"

Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of the two of them were opened [that is, their awareness increased], and they knew that they were naked; and they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

Genesis 3:10
He said, "I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."

Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden tree]."

Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel."

Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), knowing [how to distinguish between] good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take from the tree of life as well, and eat [its fruit], and live [in this fallen, sinful condition] forever"—

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold,.... Which is all the Lord's, Haggai 2:8; or which he had bestowed upon his people, and they had taken from them:

and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things; either the rich furniture of the houses of his people, which they carried into their own houses, or "palaces" e, as it may be rendered; having either taken them away themselves, or bought them of others that had taken them: or else the rich vessels of the temple; as these were carried away by the Chaldeans, and put into their idol temples, Daniel 1:2; so afterward they were taken by the Romans, and put into the temples of their gods: whether any of these came into the hands of the Tyrians, c. by any means, and were put into their idol temples, as the temple of Hercules, is not certain however, it is notorious that the Papists, the Tyrians are an emblem of, not only build stately temples, and dedicate them to angels and saints, but most profusely adorn them with gold and silver, and all goodly and desirable things; which is putting them to an idolatrous use they were not designed for.

e להיכליכם "in palatia vestra", Montanus, Drusius, Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have taken My silver and My gold - Not the silver and gold of the temple, (as some have thought.) At least, up to the prophet’s time, they had not done this. For the inroad of the Philistines in the reign of Jehoram was, apparently, a mere marauding expedition, in which they killed and plundered, but are not said to have besieged or taken any city, much less Jerusalem. God calls “the silver and gold” which He, through His Providence, had bestowed on Judah, “My” gold and silver; as He said by Hosea Hosea 2:8.

“She knew not that I multiplied her silver and gold, whereof she made Baal;” and by Haggai, “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, saith the Lord of Hosts” Haggai 2:8. For they were His people, and what they had, they held of Him; and the Philistines too so accounted it, and dedicated a part of it to their idols, as they had the ark formerly, accounting the victory over God’s people to be the triumph of their idols over God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 5. Ye have taken my silver and my gold — The Chaldeans had spoiled the temple, and carried away the sacred vessels, and put them in the temple of their own god in Babylon.