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" ; 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.
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Joel 1:3
Joel 1:3
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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