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 Lord gave this message to Joel son of Pethuel. 2Hear this, you leaders of the people. Listen, all who live in the land. In all your history, has anything like this happened before? Tell your children about it in the years to come, and let your children tell their children. Pass the story down from generation to generation. 4After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left! After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too! 5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine-drinkers! All the grapes are ruined, and all your sweet wine is gone.

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, “Return to Pharaoh and make your demands again. I have made him and his officials stubborn so I can display my miraculous signs among them.
• Exodus 13:14“And in the future, your children will ask you, ‘What does all this mean?’ Then you will tell them, ‘With the power of his mighty hand, the Lord brought us out of Egypt, the place of our slavery.
• Deuteronomy 6:7Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
• Joshua 4:6We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’
• Psalms 44:1O God, we have heard it with our own ears— our ancestors have told us of all you did in their day, in days long ago:
• Psalms 71:18Now that I am old and gray, do not abandon me, O God. Let me proclaim your power to this new generation, your mighty miracles to all who come after me.
• Psalms 78:3stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us.
• Psalms 145:4Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts; let them proclaim your power.
• Isaiah 38:19Only the living can praise you as I do today. Each generation tells of your faithfulness to the next.

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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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