Animals
turtledove in Jeremiah 8
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This creature shows up in Jeremiah 8:7: “Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.
Jeremiah 8:7
“Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.”
What kids can learn
When you hear turtledove in Jeremiah, remember the sentence around it. God put this creature in the story on purpose.
Read Jeremiah 8:7 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Jeremiah 8:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yes,thestorkintheskyknowsherappointedtimes.Thetheswallow,andthecraneobservethetimeoftheirbutmypeopledon’tknowlaw.