Joel 1:3

Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

In Context

2Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

4What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:2And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 6:7Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

Joshua 4:21And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?

Psalms 71:18Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

Psalms 145:4One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8

Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →

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