Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 3:6

6 The children also of Judah , and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far from their border .

The Iews who dwelt in the Land,

The Citizens of Ierusalem, or perhaps the young ones, Boys and Girls, as ver. 3. both of City and Country.

Tyrians, Zidonians, and Philistins, though Neighbours, and oftentimes befriended by the Iews, yet you have done this,

Or sons of Graecians, who either employed them as Slaves in Greece, or else sold them to other Nations for Slaves;

that there might be no hope to these poor Captives ever to return to their Countrey, nor fear to the Tyrians and Zidonians of being call'd to account for the injury by them 'twas done unto. Amos 1.6, 9. mentions this sin of the Philistins, and God's displeasure at it.

Marginal references: Heb. sons of the Gr[illegible: 1 letter]cians.