Joel 1:3

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Tell it to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

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  • Deut 6:7 : 7 Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.
  • Ps 78:3-8 : 3 Things we have heard and known, which our ancestors have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, but will tell the next generation the praises of the Lord, His strength, and the wonders He has done. 5 He established a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which He commanded our ancestors to teach their children, 6 so that the next generation would know them—children yet to be born—and in turn they would rise and tell their children, 7 so they would put their trust in God and not forget His deeds but keep His commandments. 8 They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.
  • Ps 145:4 : 4 Generation after generation will praise your works and declare your mighty acts.
  • Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living—they thank You, as I do today. Fathers make Your faithfulness known to their children.
  • Exod 10:1-2 : 1 The LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, so that I may perform these signs of mine among them." 2 And so that you may tell in the hearing of your son and your grandson how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and about the signs I performed among them, so that you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Exod 13:14 : 14 In the future, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'With a mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  • Josh 4:6-7 : 6 This will serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ 7 you shall tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD when it crossed the Jordan. The waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the Israelites forever.’”
  • Josh 4:21-22 : 21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 You are to let your children know: 'Israel crossed the Jordan here on dry ground.'
  • Ps 44:1 : 1 For the director of music. A contemplative psalm of the sons of Korah.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Even when I am old and my hair turns gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.

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    3 Things we have heard and known, which our ancestors have told us.

    4 We will not hide them from their children, but will tell the next generation the praises of the Lord, His strength, and the wonders He has done.

    5 He established a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which He commanded our ancestors to teach their children,

    6 so that the next generation would know them—children yet to be born—and in turn they would rise and tell their children,

  • Joel 1:2
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    2 Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

  • Joel 1:4
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    4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

  • Deut 32:7
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    7 Remember the days of old; consider the years of past generations. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

  • Deut 31:13
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    13 And their children, who do not know it yet, will hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

  • Deut 4:9-10
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    9 Only be careful and guard your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

    10 Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Assemble the people for Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and to teach them to their children.'

  • Prov 17:6
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    6 Children’s children are the crown of the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Deut 11:19
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    19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

  • Josh 22:27
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    27 but as a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at His sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD.’

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    4 Generation after generation will praise your works and declare your mighty acts.

  • Jer 2:9
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    9 Therefore I will still bring charges against you, declares the LORD, and against your children’s children I will bring charges.

  • Exod 10:2
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    2 And so that you may tell in the hearing of your son and your grandson how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and about the signs I performed among them, so that you will know that I am the LORD.

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    2 Know today that it was not your children, who did not know and have not seen, but you who witnessed the discipline of the LORD your God—His greatness, His strong hand, and His outstretched arm.

  • Deut 29:22
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    22 The whole land will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

  • Josh 4:6
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    6 This will serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

  • Ps 44:1
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    1 For the director of music. A contemplative psalm of the sons of Korah.

  • Eccl 1:4
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    4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

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    13 Walk around Zion, go around her; count her towers.

  • Deut 6:7
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    7 Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.

  • Ps 45:16
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  • 1 Chr 16:15
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    15 Remember his covenant forever, the word he commanded for a thousand generations.

  • Judg 2:10
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    10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD or the works he had done for Israel.

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    8 Ask the previous generation, and give thought to the findings of their ancestors;

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    20 In the future, when your son asks you, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies, statutes, and judgments that the LORD our God has commanded you?'

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    25 When you have children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and if you act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,

  • Ps 22:30
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    30 All the rich of the earth will feast and bow down; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—those who cannot keep themselves alive.

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  • Job 15:18
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  • Deut 23:8
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  • Deut 6:2
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  • Deut 11:21
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  • Ps 71:18
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    18 Even when I am old and my hair turns gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.

  • Jer 5:20
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    20 Declare this to the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah, saying:

  • Exod 13:14
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    14 In the future, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'With a mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  • Prov 4:1
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    2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

  • Isa 30:8
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    24 We did this because we feared that someday your descendants might say to ours, ‘What do you have to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?’