Verse Lens · Context pointer
Joel 3:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
This verse charges the addressed powers with carrying the LORD's precious silver and gold into their temples.
Read It With
- Joel 3:4–8
Read Joel 3:4–8 together. This verse charges the addressed powers with carrying the LORD's precious silver and gold into their temples. Read Joel 3:4–8 as one complete prophetic movement: The LORD confronts named coastal powers for plunder and long-distance slave trading, promises to raise the sold Judeans, and announces a harsh poetic reversal in which the traffickers' own children are sold far away.
Why It Needs Context
This line performs one step inside Joel 3:4–8; isolating it would detach the image or action from the unit's speaker, cause, response, and outcome. Specifically, this verse charges the addressed powers with carrying the LORD's precious silver and gold into their temples.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Joel 3:4–8 — Coastal Powers Hear a Severe Reversal for Plunder and Slave TradingSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Joel 3:4–8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew forms, morphology, repeated roots, clause relationships, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Joel.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 3:4–8
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