Joel 1:3

3 Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation.

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:

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Joel 1:3 In-Context

1 This is the Lord's message to Joel son of Pethuel.

2 Pay attention, you older people; everyone in Judah, listen. Has anything like this ever happened in your time or the time of your ancestors?

3 Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation.

4 Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.

5 Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.