Animals
leopard in Jeremiah 5
LEP-erd
This creature shows up in Jeremiah 5:6: “Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them, a wolf of the evenings will destroy them, a leopard will watch against their cities.…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.
Jeremiah 5:6
“Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them, a wolf of the evenings will destroy them, a leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding has increased.”
What kids can learn
When you hear leopard in Jeremiah, remember the sentence around it. God put this creature in the story on purpose.
Read Jeremiah 5:6 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Jeremiah 5:6
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Thereforealionoutoftheforestwillkillawolfoftheeveningswillaleopardwillwatchagainsttheircities.Everyonewhogoesouttherewillbetorninpieces,becausetheirtransgressionsaremany,andtheirbackslidinghasincreased.