Joel 1:3

Joel 1:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
• New International Version (NIV)Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.

Context of Joel 1:3

1This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel: 2Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers? Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. 4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten. 5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:3 word by word

עָלֶ֖יהָ לִבְנֵיכֶ֣ם סַפֵּ֑רוּ וּבְנֵיכֶם֙ לִבְנֵיהֶ֔ם וּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם לְד֥וֹר אַחֵֽר׃Read the interlinear

• Tellסָפַרsâphar · to recountH5608
• itעַל‛al · uponH5921
• to your childrenבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• to the nextאַחֵר'achêr · anotherH312
• generationדּוֹרdôr dôr · generationH1755

Cross-references for Joel 1:3

• Exodus 10:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
• Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
• Deuteronomy 6:7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
• Joshua 4:6to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
• Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
• Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
• Psalms 78:3that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
• Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
• Isaiah 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

Commentaries on Joel 1:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Tell ye your children of it - To heighten the effect, he still conceals the subject, and informs them that it is such as should be handed down from father to son through all generations.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Tell ye your children of it - In the order of God‘s goodness, generation was to declare to generation the wonders of His love. “He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to come might know them, the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children that they might … not forget the works of God”…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3God's people would share their experiences with future generations. This way, their descendants could learn from the lessons they had gained (compare Deuteronomy 4:9; 6:20–25).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-32-3. A spirited introduction calling attention. old men--the best judges in question concerning the past (De 32:7; Job 32:7). Hath this been, &c.--that is, Hath any so grievous a calamity as this ever been before? No such plague of locusts had been since the ones in Egypt. Ex 10:14 is not at variance with this verse, which refers to Judea, in which Joel says there had been no such devastation before.Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 1:3

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Commentaries on Joel 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings