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. 2You older men, hear this! Listen, all people who live in this country. Nothing like this has happened while you have been alive. Nothing like this happened while your ancestors were alive. Tell this to your children. And they must tell it to their children. And their children must tell it to their own children. 4The great locusts have eaten what the big group of locusts left. The young locusts have eaten what the great locusts left. Other locusts have eaten what the young locusts left. 5Wake up, you who have drunk too much wine! Cry, all people who drink wine! Cry because you will have no new wine. Someone has taken it away from you.

Joel 1:3 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Tellסָפַרsâphar · to recountH5608
• ye your childrenבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• anotherאַחֵר'achêr · anotherH312
• generationדּוֹרdôr dôr · generationH1755

Cross-references for Joel 1:3

• Exodus 10:1Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go to see Pharaoh. I have caused his mind to become hard. I have also caused his officers' minds to become hard. I have done this so that I can do miracles to show him my power.
• Exodus 13:14One day, your son may ask you, “What does this mean?” Then you must say to him, “The Lord brought us out of Egypt with his powerful authority. He took us away from the place where we were slaves.
• Deuteronomy 6:7Teach them to your children at all times. Talk about them when you sit together at home. Talk about them as you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
• Joshua 4:6The heap of stones will help you to remember what happened today. In future years, your children will ask you, “What do these stones mean?”
• Psalms 44:1God, we have heard it for ourselves. Our ancestors told us what you did for them a long time ago.
• Psalms 71:18And even when I am old and my hair is grey, do not turn away from me, God. I need to tell the people still to be born about your great strength. My descendants need to know about your power.
• Psalms 78:3We have heard about these things and we know them. Our ancestors have told them to us,
• Psalms 145:4Down from father to son, people will praise you. They will tell each other about the powerful things that you have done.
• Isaiah 38:19It is those people who are alive that can thank you. And I am doing it today. Fathers tell their children that they can trust you.

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

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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