Joel 1:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 6:7 : 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.
  • Ps 78:3-8 : 3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers. 4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done. 5 He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children; 6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children; 7 So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws; 8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
  • Ps 145:4 : 4 One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.
  • Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.
  • Exod 10:1-2 : 1 And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among them: 2 And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.
  • Exod 13:14 : 14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:
  • Josh 4:6-7 : 6 So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones? 7 Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever.
  • Josh 4:21-22 : 21 And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones? 22 Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.
  • Ps 44:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:3-6
    4 verses
    83%

    3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

    4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

    5 He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

    6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

  • Joel 1:2
    82%

    2 Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

  • Joel 1:4
    78%

    4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

  • Deut 32:7
    78%

    7 Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

  • Deut 31:13
    76%

    13 And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Deut 4:9-10
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    75%

    9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

    10 That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

  • Prov 17:6
    75%

    6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Deut 11:19
    74%

    19 Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

  • Josh 22:27
    73%

    27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

  • Ps 145:4
    72%

    4 One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.

  • Jer 2:9
    72%

    9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

  • Exod 10:2
    72%

    2 And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.

  • Deut 11:2
    72%

    2 And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,

  • Deut 29:22
    72%

    22 And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;

  • Josh 4:6
    71%

    6 So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?

  • Ps 44:1
    71%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

  • Eccl 1:4
    71%

    4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

  • Ps 48:13
    71%

    13 Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.

  • Deut 6:7
    71%

    7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

  • Ps 45:16
    71%

    16 Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.

  • Amos 3:1
    71%

    1 Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  • 1 Chr 16:15
    71%

    15 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

  • Judg 2:10
    71%

    10 And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

  • Job 8:8
    71%

    8 Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

  • Deut 6:20
    70%

    20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

  • Deut 4:25
    70%

    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Ps 22:30
    70%

    30 A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

  • Ps 128:6
    70%

    6 May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

  • Job 15:18
    70%

    18 (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

  • Jer 31:29
    70%

    29 In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

  • Deut 23:8
    70%

    8 Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

  • Deut 6:2
    70%

    2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

  • Deut 11:21
    70%

    21 So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

  • Ps 71:18
    70%

    18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

  • Jer 5:20
    70%

    20 Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,

  • Exod 13:14
    70%

    14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:

  • Prov 4:1
    70%

    1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

  • Isa 1:2
    70%

    2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

  • Isa 30:8
    69%

    8 Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

  • Josh 22:24
    69%

    24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

  • Mal 4:6
    69%

    6 And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.