Joel 3:5

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

and have carried into your temples my…

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…

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…

my silver and my gold not necessarily the silver and the gold in the Temple (1Ki 14:26; 2Ki 14:14), but more generally what belonged to Jehovah, or His people, whether in the Temple, or in the public…