Joel 1:3

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell it to their children, and their children tell the next generation.

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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

2Listen to this, elders; pay attention, everyone who lives in the land. Has anything ever happened like this before in your experience, or that of your forefathers?

4What the cutting locusts left, the swarming locusts have eaten; what the swarming locusts left, the hopping locusts have eaten; what the hopping locusts left, the destroying locusts have eaten.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:2This is so you can tell your children and grandchildren how I made the Egyptians look foolish by doing these miracles among them, and so that you may know that I am the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 6:7You are to explain them carefully to your children and talk about them when you're at home and when you're traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.

Joshua 4:21He told the Israelites, “When some day your children ask you their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’

Psalms 71:18Even though I'm old and gray, please don't abandon me, God. Let me tell the new generation about your power. Let me explain to all who are to come the great things you do.

Psalms 145:4Let every generation tell the next all that you do, sharing the stories of your amazing miracles!

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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