Joel 1:3

Tell your children about it, 1 and let your children tell their children, 1 and their children the next generation. 1

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Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

In Context

2Hear this, you elders, 1 and listen, all you inhabitants of the land. 1 Has anything like this happened in your days 1 or in the days of your ancestors? 1

4What the swarming locust has left the great locust has eaten; 1 what the great locust has left the grasshopper has eaten; 1 and what the grasshopper has left the caterpillar has eaten. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 10:2I have also done this so that you may tell your children and grandchildren the things I have done, how I have harshly treated Egypt, and how I have given various signs of my power among them. In this way you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Deuteronomy 6:7and you will diligently teach them to your children; you will talk about them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.

Joshua 4:21He said to the people of Israel, “When your descendants ask their fathers in times to come, 'What are these stones?'

Psalms 71:18Indeed, even when I am old and gray-headed, God, do not forsake me, 1 as I have been declaring your strength to the next generation, 1 your power to everyone who is to come. 1

Psalms 145:4One generation will praise your deeds to the next 1 and will proclaim your mighty actions. 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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