Joel 1:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.”
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“Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joel 1:3 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 10:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
- Exodus 10:2and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
- Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Deuteronomy 6:7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Joshua 4:6to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
- Joshua 4:21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
- Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
- Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
- Psalms 78:3that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Isaiah 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).