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

1The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: 2Hear this, O elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers’ days? Tell your sons about it, And let your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation. 4What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten. 5Awake, drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is 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
• your sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• 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 heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them,
• Exodus 13:14And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
• Deuteronomy 6:7You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
• Joshua 4:6Let this be a sign among you, so that when your children ask later, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
• Psalms 44:1O God, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us The work that You did in their days, In the days of old.
• Psalms 71:18And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to all who are to come.
• Psalms 78:3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
• Psalms 145:4One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.
• Isaiah 38:19It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons 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

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In the dictionaries

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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