Joel 1:3

Tell your children concerning them, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Brenton Septuagint

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

2Hear these words, ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. + 1:2 Gr. if.Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

4The leavings of the + 1:4 It is difficult to assign the exact meaning of the Greek.caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:2that ye may relate in the ears of your children, and to your children's children, in how many things I have mocked the Egyptians, and my wonders which I wrought among them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 6:7And thou shalt teach them to thy children, and thou shalt speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

Joshua 4:21saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones?

Psalms 71:18Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

Psalms 145:4His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.

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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