Joel 1:3

Tell ye your banim (children) of it, 1 and let your banim tell their banim, 1 and their banim to the next generation. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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, ye zekenim, 1 and give ear, all ye yoshvei ha'aretz (inhabitants of the land). 1 Hath anything like this been in your days, 1 or even in the days of your avot (fathers)? 1

4That which the locust swarm hath left 1 hath the arbeh (great locust) eaten; 1 and that which the arbeh hath left 1 hath the crawling locust eaten; 1 and that which the crawling locust hath left 1 hath the other locust eaten. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 10:2And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy ben, and of thy benʼs ben, what things I have wrought in Mitzrayim, and My otot which I have done among them; that ye may have da'as that I am Hashem.

Deuteronomy 6:7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy banim, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine bais, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Joshua 4:21And he spoke unto the Bnei Yisroel, saying, When your banim shall ask their avot in time to come, saying, What mean these avanim?

Psalms 71:18Now also when I am in ziknah (old age) 1 and grayheaded, O Elohim, forsake me not; 1 until I have declared Thy zero'a + 71:18 Moshiach; see Isa 53:1 unto this generation, 1 and Thy gevurah to everyone that is to come. 1

Psalms 145:4[Dalet] Dor l'dor (generation to generation) shall praise Thy ma'asim, 1 and shall declare Thy gevurot (mighty acts). 1

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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