Joel 1:3

3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

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Joel 1:3 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)

3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

English Standard Version (ESV)

3 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

New Living Translation (NLT)

3 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.

The Message Bible (MSG)

3 Make sure you tell your children, and your children tell their children, And their children their children. Don't let this message die out.

American Standard Version (ASV)

3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.

GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)

3 Tell your children about it. Have your children tell their children. Have your grandchildren tell their children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

3 Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation.

New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

3 Tell your children about it. Let them tell their children. And let their children tell it to those who live after them.

Joel 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:3

Tell ye your children of it
Give them a particular account of it; describe the creatures and their number as near as you can; say when they begun and how long they continued, and what devastations they made, and what was the cause and reason of such a judgment, your sins and transgressions: and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children other
generation;
or, "to the generation following" ^F12; let it be handed down from one generation to another that it may be a caution to future posterity how they behave and lest they bring down the like awful judgments on them. What this referred to was as follows:

FOOTNOTES:

F12 (rxa rwdl) "posteritati sequenti", Vatablus; "generationi posterae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Joel 1:3 In-Context

1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.

2 Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

4 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.

5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.

Cross References 2

1. S Exodus 10:2; Psalms 78:4
2. S Psalms 71:18