Joel 3:6
“and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.”
What does Joel 3:6 mean?
The prophet Joel is describing how foreign nations have scattered God's people by selling them into slavery, treating the children of Judah and Jerusalem as commodities to be trafficked away. This was a real horror of ancient warfare: when armies conquered a region, they would enslave survivors and sell them to distant lands, deliberately separating families and removing them from their homeland. Joel uses this brutal reality to show God's people their vulnerability and their desperate need for Him. The passage reminds us that God sees when the vulnerable are exploited and when the defenseless are treated as disposable, and it sets up His promise to act on behalf of His scattered children.