Joel 1:3

Recount concerning it to your children recount, a stronger word than tell, and implying some narrative of particulars.

to your children, &c. comp. (also with recount) Exodus 10:2; Psalms 22:30 (R.V.), Psalms 48:13; Psalms 78:4; Psalms 78:6; and "our fathers have recountedto us," Judges 6:13; Psalms 44:1; Psalms 78:3. Usually, it is the memory of Jehovah's deliverances, which is thus to be handed on from father to son (comp. also Exodus 12:26 f., Exodus 13:8; Exodus 13:14; Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 6:20 f.; Joshua 4:6 f., Joshua 4:21 f.); here it is the memory of an unprecedented disaster.