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Joel 1:3

Joel 1:3
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Tell 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,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joel 1:1-7

It is a foolish fancy which some of the Jews have, that this Joel the prophet was the same with that Joel who was the son of Samuel (Sa1 8:2); yet one of their rabbin very gravely undertakes to show…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Recount concerning it to your children recount, a stronger word than tell, and implying some narrative of particulars.

to your children, &c. comp. (also with recount) Exo 10:2; Psa 22:30 (R.V.), Psa…