ESV Reformation Study Bible – Joel 3:4
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Joel 3:4

3:4 paying me back. The legal charge against Tyre and Sidon (coastal Phoenicia) and the regions of Philistia (coastal Palestine, Josh. 13:2, 3) concerns their involvement in capturing and trading Israelites as prisoners of war. Both regions had sold Israelites as slaves to the Greeks (v. 6) and to Edom (Amos 1:6, 9).