You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
It follows, And the children of Judah, and the children of Jerusalem, have ye sold to the children of the Grecians לבני היונים, to the children of the Ivanites, or Javanites. — Ed. . There is here another complaint subjoined, — that the Syrians and Sidonians had been sacrilegious towards God, that they had cruelly treated God’s afflicted people.
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 be done when it comes, whenever it comes, for it comes often, and at the end of time it will come once for all. I.
Commenting on Joel 3:1-8
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem,.... Not children in age literally, as Kimchi, kidnapped or bought by the Tyrians; but the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem: have ye sold unto the Grecians; or sons of Javan; it was one part of the merchandise of Tyre to trade in the persons of men; and Javan, or the Greeks, with others, were their...