Joel 1:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Joel 1:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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,...
Joel 1:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17 . A Description of the Plague of Locusts, and a Summons to an Assembly for Confession and Intercession. Joel 1:2-4 . The Unprecedented Character of the Plague. No living...
Joel 1:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Tell ye your children. Ref to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 4:9 ; Deuteronomy 6:6 ; Deuteronomy 6:7 ; Deuteronomy 11:19 ). App-92. Compare Psalms 78:3-8 . children . sons. Note the Figure of speec...
Joel 1:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He then adds, Tell it to your children, your children to their children, their children to the next generation. In this verse the Prophet shows that the matter deserved to be remembered, and...
Joel 1:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. Tell ye your children of it - To heighten the effect, he still conceals the subject,...
Joel 1:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants...
Joel 1:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Coming of the Locusts a Harbinger of the Day of the Lord After the title ( Joel 1:1 ), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts ( Joel 1:2-4 ), an...
Joel 1:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hath this been in your days. — The introduction points to the startling nature of the portent: it was unexampled; it was a cause of consternation to all who beheld it; it would be recollected as a...
Joel 1:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they...
Joel 1:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Summons to Penitence Joel 1:1-20 ; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. Th...
Joel 1:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible l...
Joel 1:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The prophecy opens in a very striking manner. It is the Lord's word, and therefore demands man's attention. And all ranks and orders are appealed unto to regard the man of God's commission; young men...
Joel 1:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 devastat...
Joel 1:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation. Ver. 3. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children ]...
Joel 1:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hear this, ye old men Ye that have seen and remember many things. Hath this been in your days , &c. Give attention; and when you have heard and considered, say whether any thing like the calam...
Joel 1:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 720. 1 The word of the L ORD that came to Joel the son...
Joel 1:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Declare it very particularly, or record it, write it as in a book, that your children may know it, and the memory of it may be perpetuated; for as it was a very wonderful and unusual thing, so it was...
Joel 1:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Call To Hear What God Has To Say ( Joel 1:2-5 ). The prophecy opens with a call to all in Judah to hear what God has to say. The opening call has in mind Exodus 10:1-2 which, in the context...
Joel 1:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophecy opens with lamentation over the land, made desolate by successive swarms of locusts. Joel 1:2-4 contain the spirited introduction. Old men ] are called upon to note...
Joel 1:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:1 . Joel, the son of Pethuel. Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presume...
Joel 1:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Joel Great as is the variety in the works of nature, it is no less so in the treasury of God’s Word. The “prophets” are quite unlike t...
Joel 1:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel . The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the...
Joel 1:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Description of the Calamity
Joel 1:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 6:7 ; Exodus 10:1 ; Exodus 10:2 ; Exodus 13:14 ; Isaiah 38:19 ; Joshua 4:21 ; Joshua 4:22 ; Joshua 4:6 ; Joshua 4:7 ; Psalms 145:4 ; Psalms 44:1 ; Psalms 71:18 ; Psalms 78:3-...

Joel 1:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joel 1:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joel 1:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joel 1:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 1:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joel 1:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joel 1:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joel 1:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joel 1:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joel 1:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joel 1:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joel 1:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joel 1:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joel 1:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joel 1:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge