Joel 1:3

Of this thing tell ye to your sons, and your sons tell to their sons, and the sons of them tell to another generation. (Tell ye this thing to your children, and your children tell their children, and their children tell to another generation.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

2Eld men, hear ye this, and all dwellers of the land, perceive ye with ears. If this thing was done in your days, either in the days of your fathers. (Old men, hear ye this, and all the inhabitants of the land, listen! Was such a thing as this ever done in your days, or in the days of your forefathers?)

4A locust ate the residue of a wortworm, and a bruchus ate the residue of a locust, and rust ate the residue of a bruchus.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:2and (so) that thou (can) tell in the ears of thy son (s), and of thy sons’ sons, how oft I all-brake the Egyptians, and did signs in them (or and did these miracles among them); and (so) that ye know that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 6:7and thou shalt tell those to thy sons, and thou shalt think upon them, sitting in thine house, and going in the way (or and going on the way), lying down, and rising (up).

Joshua 4:21And he said to the sons of Israel, When your sons shall ask tomorrow their fathers, and shall say to them, What will these stones be mean (ing)? (And he said to the Israelites, When your sons and daughters shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them, What mean ye by these stones?)

Psalms 71:18And till into eld (age)/into oldness, and the last age; God, forsake thou not me. Till I tell thine arm, or power, to each generation that shall come. (And now in my old age, and in the last moments; O God, do not thou desert, or abandon, me. And I shall tell of thy power, or of thy might, to each generation yet to come.)

Psalms 145:4Generation and generation shall praise thy works; and they shall pronounce, either tell (a) far, thy power. (One generation shall praise thy works unto the next; and they shall declare, or shall tell of, thy power.)

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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