I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

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I will gather(A) all nations
    and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[a](B)
There I will put them on trial(C)
    for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,
because they scattered(D) my people among the nations
    and divided up my land.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:2 Jehoshaphat means the Lord judges; also in verse 12.

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

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They cast lots(A) for my people
    and traded boys for prostitutes;
    they sold girls for wine(B) to drink.

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The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

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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You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,(A) that you might send them far from their homeland.

“See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them,(B) and I will return(C) on your own heads what you have done. I will sell your sons(D) and daughters to the people of Judah,(E) and they will sell them to the Sabeans,(F) a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.(G)

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