Joel 3:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And they have cast lots for my people— That is, "They have divided my captive people by lot among themselves, according to the laws of war then in use among mankind." See Nahum 3:10. Obad. Joel 3:11. They have given a boy for a harlot; that is to say, they gave a boy as the price of a harlot; and a girl for wine; that is, as the price of wine. They put both boys and girls to the most infamous uses: the boys to wait on their harlots; the girls to be ruined by their sellers of wine. The boys are given as a reward for gratifying their vile passions, and the girls as the price of their intemperance. See Chandler.