Joel 3:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And they have cast lots - They treated God’s people as of no account, and delighted in showing their contempt toward them. They chose no one above another, as though all alike were worthless. “They cast lots,” it is said elsewhere, “upon their honorable men” Nahum 3:10, as a special indignity, above captivity or slavery. A “girl” they sold for an evening’s revelry, and a “boy” they exchanged for a night’s debauch.

Joel 3:3

3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.