John Gill Commentary Joel 1:3

"Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation." — Joel 1:3 (ASV)

Tell you 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.