Objects
salt in Joshua 3
SALT
This thing shows up in Joshua 3:16: “the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real thing in a real place.
Joshua 3:16
“the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.”
What kids can learn
When you hear salt in Joshua, remember the sentence around it. God put this thing in the story on purpose.
Read Joshua 3:16 again tomorrow and ask what the thing is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Joshua 3:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
thewaterswhichcamedownfromstood,androseupinoneheap,agreatwayoff,atAdam,thecitythatisbesideZarethan;andthosethatwentdowntowardtheseaoftheArabah,eventheSaltSea,werecutoff.ThenthepeopleovernearJericho.