Joel 3:3

Good News Translation

They threw dice to decide who would get the captives. They sold boys and girls into slavery to pay for prostitutes and wine.

Cross References

Job 6:27

You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!

Ezekiel 27:13

You did business in Greece, Tubal, and Meshech and traded your goods for slaves and for articles of bronze.

Joel 1:5

Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.

Amos 2:6

The Lord says, “The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They sell into slavery honest people who cannot pay their debts, the poor who cannot repay even the price of a pair of sandals.

Obadiah 1:11

You stood aside on that day when enemies broke down their gates. You were as bad as those strangers who carried off Jerusalem's wealth and divided it among themselves.

Nahum 3:10

Yet the people of Thebes were carried off into exile. At every street corner their children were beaten to death. Their leading men were carried off in chains and divided among their captors.

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine and oil, flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and carriages, slaves, and even human lives.