Joel 3:6

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You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own territory.

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  • Ezek 27:13 : 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human lives and bronze articles for your merchandise.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 They cast lots for my people; they traded a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, which they drank.
  • Joel 3:8 : 8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation. The LORD has spoken.
  • Deut 28:32 : 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch with longing eyes all day, but you will be powerless to act.
  • Deut 28:68 : 68 The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, in the way I said you would never see again. There, you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

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  • Joel 3:7-8
    2 verses
    83%

    7Behold, I am going to arouse them from the place where you sold them, and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.

    8I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation. The LORD has spoken.

  • Joel 3:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3They cast lots for my people; they traded a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, which they drank.

    4Now, what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are repaying me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your own heads.

    5For you took my silver and my gold and carried my precious treasures into your temples.

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10And now you intend to enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the LORD your God?

    11Now listen to me! Send back your captives whom you have taken from your relatives, for the LORD’s fierce anger is against you.

  • Isa 2:6
    72%

    6For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of influences from the east, practice divination like the Philistines, and join hands with foreigners.

  • Ps 44:12
    72%

    12You delivered us like sheep to be eaten and have scattered us among the nations.

  • Isa 52:3
    72%

    3For this is what the LORD says: You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money.

  • Obad 1:11
    72%

    11On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

  • Mic 2:9
    72%

    9You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    71%

    8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, devastation, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • Nah 3:10
    70%

    10Yet she went into exile, carried away into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Jer 15:4
    70%

    4I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

  • Isa 31:6
    69%

    6Return to the One you have so deeply rebelled against, O sons of Israel.

  • Jer 50:33
    69%

    33This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The people of Israel and the people of Judah are oppressed together. All their captors hold them fast and refuse to let them go.

  • Zech 9:13
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    13For I have bent Judah as my bow, and I have filled it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword.

  • Isa 50:1
    69%

    1This is what the LORD says: Where is the certificate of divorce for your mother, whom I sent away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Behold, because of your sins, you were sold, and because of your transgressions, your mother was sent away.

  • Amos 2:6
    69%

    6This is what the LORD says: 'For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.'

  • Isa 3:8
    69%

    8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and actions are against the LORD, challenging His glorious presence.

  • Ezek 27:13
    69%

    13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human lives and bronze articles for your merchandise.

  • Jer 44:7
    69%

    7Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, cutting off from Judah man, woman, child, and infant, leaving yourselves without any remnant?

  • Hos 7:13
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    13Woe to them because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them, but they speak lies about me.

  • Jer 17:3
    69%

    3O my mountain in the field, I will give away your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, along with your high places, because of the sin committed throughout your borders.

  • Jer 7:30
    69%

    30For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my name to defile it.

  • Isa 47:6
    69%

    6I was angry with My people, I profaned My heritage and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

  • Hos 6:11
    69%

    11Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore the fortunes of My people.

  • Zech 11:5
    69%

    5Their buyers slaughter them without remorse, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds show no pity on them.

  • Mic 2:4
    69%

    4On that day, they will take up a taunt against you and wail with bitter lament, saying: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's inheritance is divided. How it has been taken away from me! He removes our fields and gives them to traitors.'

  • Jer 24:9
    68%

    9I will make them a horror and an object of calamity among all the kingdoms of the earth—a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I drive them.

  • Jer 3:20
    68%

    20But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

  • Lam 1:3
    68%

    3Judah has gone into exile, suffering and hard service. She lives among the nations but finds no rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in narrow places.

  • Jer 5:11
    68%

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

  • Neh 5:8
    68%

    8I said to them, 'We have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations, as much as we were able. Now, you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!' They stayed silent, unable to say a word.

  • Judg 1:8
    68%

    8The men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, captured it, struck it down with the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • Isa 47:15
    68%

    15This is how it will be for those with whom you have labored, those who have traded with you from your youth; each one wanders to his own way—there is no one to save you.

  • Jer 6:8
    68%

    8Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will become alienated from you and make you a desolation, a land uninhabited.

  • Lev 25:45
    68%

    45You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your land, and they will become your property.

  • Mic 1:16
    68%

    16Shave your head bald and cut off your hair because of your precious children. Make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they have been taken away from you into exile.

  • Ezek 22:12
    68%

    12In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Mic 3:12
    68%

    12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • Jer 12:14
    68%

    14This is what the LORD says: 'As for all my evil neighbors who harm the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.'

  • Amos 8:6
    68%

    6Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'

  • Deut 28:68
    68%

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    5'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'

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    68%

    26They will strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewelry.