Joel 3:8

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
sell	וּמָכַרְתִּ֞י u.ma.khar.Ti	H4376	to sell · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 1st person common singular
sons	בְּנֵיכֶ֣ם be.nei.Khem	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
daughters	בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם be.no.tei.Khem	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
hand	בְּיַד֙ be.Yad	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct
children	בְּנֵ֣י be.Nei	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Judah	יְהוּדָ֔ה ye.hu.Dah	H3063	Jehudah (or Judah) · proper noun, a place name
sell	וּמְכָר֥וּם u.me.kha.Rum	H4376	to sell · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
Sabeans	לִשְׁבָאיִ֖ם lish.va.Yim	H7615	a Shebaite or descendant of Sheba · preposition + proper noun, a man's name
people	גּ֣וֹי Goy	H1471	a foreign nation · noun, common masculine singular absolute
off	רָח֑וֹק ra.Chok	H7350	remote · adjective, masculine singular absolute
LORD	יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
spoken	דִּבֵּֽר di.Ber	H1696	perhaps properly · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the sol…
Job 1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alon…
Judges 2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into…
Isaiah 14:1-2 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with th…
Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
Judges 4:2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Ha…
Judges 4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sel…
Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor y…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 3:1-8

We have often heard of the year of the redeemed, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion; now here we have a description of the transactions of that year, and a prophecy of what shall be done when it comes, whenever it comes, for it comes often, and at the end of time it will come once for all. I. It shall be the year of the redeemed, for God will bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, Joe 3:1. Though the bondage of God's people may be grievous and very long, yet it shall not be everlasting. That in Egypt ended at length in their deliverance into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Let my son go, the he may serve me. That in Babylon shall likewise end well…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 3:8

sell them to . . . Sabeans--The Persian Artaxerxes Mnemon and Darius Ochus, and chiefly the Greek Alexander, reduced the PhÅ“nician and Philistine powers. Thirty thousand Tyrians after the capture of Tyre by the last conqueror, and multitudes of Philistines on the taking of Gaza, were sold as slaves. The Jews are here said to do that which the God of Judah does in vindication of their wrong, namely, sell the PhÅ“nicians who sold them, to a people "far off," as was Greece, whither the Jews had been sold. The Sabeans at the most remote extremity of Arabia Felix are referred to (compare Jer 6:20; Mat 12:42).

John Gill on Joel 3:8

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah,.... That is, deliver them into their hands, to dispose of them; this is thought to have been literally fulfilled in the Tyrians, when thirty thousand (g) of them were sold for slaves, upon the taking of their city by Alexander, who put some of them into the hands of the Jews, they being in friendship with him: it mystically designs the power that the Jewish church, converted, and in union with Gentile Christians, will have over the antichristian states: and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off; the inhabitants of Sheba, a country by the Jews reckoned the uttermost parts of the earth; see…

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Dictionary and topics

Tyre — A rock, now es-Sur; an ancient Phoenician city, about 23 miles, in a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of Sidon. Sidon was the oldest Phoenician city, but Tyre had a longer and more…
Sabeans · Prophecies concerning — Prophecies concerning
Sidon · .Prophecies concerning — .Prophecies concerning
Sidonians, The · Predictions respecting: Their spoiling and oppression of the Jews to be fully recompensed — Predictions respecting: Their spoiling and oppression of the Jews to be fully recompensed
Tyre · Prophecies respecting: Its inhabitants to be sold as slaves, as a recompence for their selling the Jews — Prophecies respecting: Its inhabitants to be sold as slaves, as a recompence for their selling the Jews

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Joel 3:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 3:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 3:8

John Gill on Joel 3:8

Dictionary and topics

Joel 3:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 3:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 3:8

John Gill on Joel 3:8

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Joel 3:8

Keil & Delitzsch on Joel 3:2-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Joel 3:7-8