Joel 1:3 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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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

English Standard Version
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

New American Standard Bible
Tell your sons about it, And let your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation.

King James Bible
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation.

International Standard Version
Pass it on to your children, and from your children to their children, and from their children to the following generation.

American Standard Version
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

Darby Bible Translation
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation:

Young's Literal Translation
Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.

Cross References

Exodus 10:2
And that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have worked in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know how that I am the LORD.

Psalm 78:4
We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:1-7 The most aged could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat the fruits of it. It is expressed so as to apply also to the destruction of the country by a foreign enemy, and seems to refer to the devastations of the Chaldeans. God is Lord of hosts, has every creature at his command, and, when he pleases, can humble and mortify a proud, rebellious people, by the weakest and most contemptible creatures. It is just with God to take away the comforts which are abused to luxury and excess; and the more men place their happiness in the gratifications of sense, the more severe temporal afflictions are upon them. The more earthly delights we make needful to satisfy us, the more we expose ourselves to trouble.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. Tell ye your children—in order that they may be admonished by the severity of the punishment to fear God (Ps 78:6-8; compare Ex 13:8; Jos 4:7).