Joel 1:3

Tell your children about it, and tell your children to tell it to their children, and tell your grandchildren to tell it to their children.

Translation for Translators

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

2You leaders of Israel, and everyone else who lives in this country, listen to this message! Nothing [RHQ] like this has ever happened during the time that we have lived or the time when our ancestors lived.

4I am talking about the locusts that have eaten our crops. The first swarm of locusts came and cut many of the leaves of the crops; then another swarm came and ate the rest of the leaves, then another swarm came hopping along, and finally another swarm came and they destroyed everything else.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:2and also in order that you would be able to tell your children and your grandchildren how I caused the Egyptians to act very foolishly when I performed all these miracles. Then all of you will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.”

Deuteronomy 6:7Teach them to your children again and again. Talk about them all the time: When you are in your houses and when you are walking outside; talk about them when you are lying down and when you are doing things.

Joshua 4:21Joshua said to the Israeli people, “In the future, when your children and grandchildren ask, ‘◄What do these stones mean/Why are these stones here►?’,

Psalms 71:18And now, God, when I am old and my hair is gray, do not abandon me. Stay with me while I continue to proclaim to my children and grandchildren [HYP] that you are very powerful!

Psalms 145:4Parents should tell their children the things that you have done; they should tell their children about your mighty deeds.

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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