Teks -- Joel 1:3 (NET)

1:3 Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

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JFB: Joe 1:2-3

A spirited introduction calling attention.

JFB: Joe 1:2-3 - old men

The best judges in question concerning the past (Deu 32:7; Job 32:7).

JFB: Joe 1:2-3 - Hath this been, &c.

That is, Hath any so grievous a calamity as this ever been before? No such plague of locusts had been since the ones in Egypt. Exo 10:14 is not at variance with this verse, which refers to Judea, in which Joel says there had been no such devastation before.

JFB: Joe 1:3 - Tell ye your children

In order that they may be admonished by the severity of the punishment to fear God (Psa 78:6-8; compare Exo 13:8; Jos 4:7).

Clarke: Joe 1:3 - Tell ye your children of it

Tell ye your children of it - To heighten the effect, he still conceals the subject, and informs them that it is such as should be handed down from father to son through all generations.

Calvin: Joe 1:3 - NO PHRASE

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 was not to be despised by posterity, even for many generations. It appears now quite clear that the Prophet threatens not what was to be, as some interpreters think; it would have been puerile: but, on the contrary, he expostulates here with the Jews, because they were so slothful and tardy in considering God’s judgments; and especially as it was a remarkable instance, when God employed not usual means, but roused, and, as it were, terrified men by prodigies. Of this then tell: for עליה olie means no other thing than ‘tell or declare this thing to your children;’ and further, your children to their children. When any thing new happens, it may be, that we are at first moved with some wonder; but our feeling soon vanishes with the novelty, and we disregard what at first caused great astonishment. But the Prophet here showed, that such was the judgment of God of which he speaks, that it ought not to have been overlooked, no, not even by posterity. Let your children, he says, declare it to those after them, and their children to the fourth generation: it was to be always remembered.

TSK: Joe 1:3

Exo 10:1, Exo 10:2, Exo 13:14; Deu 6:7; Jos 4:6, Jos 4:7, Jos 4:21, Jos 4:22; Psa 44:1, Psa 71:18, Psa 78:3-8; Psa 145:4; Isa 38:19

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Poole: Joe 1:3

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 for to mind us of the cause of it, and what it taught, or should have taught, them and us.

Haydock: Joe 1:3 - Generation

Generation. Prophecies relate to all future times, that people may see their accomplishment, (Worthington) and believe. (Haydock)

Gill: Joe 1:3 - Tell ye your children of it // and let your children tell their children, and their children other generation

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" ^l; 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: