Joel 1:3

Recount it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the generation that follows.

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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

2Hear this, elders, pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?

4That which the cutting locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten, that which the swarming locust has left, the hopping locust has eaten, and that which the hopping locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

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Cross References

Joshua 4:21He said to the Israelites, “When in the future your children ask what these stones mean,

Psalms 71:18Even in old age and grey hair, O God, do not forsake me. Still would I tell of your might unto all generations to come.

Psalms 145:4One age to another shall praise your deeds, declaring the mighty things you have done.

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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