People
Mordecai in Ezra 2
MOR-deh-kye
This person shows up in Ezra 2:2: “who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real person in a real place.
Ezra 2:2
“who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:”
What kids can learn
When you hear mordecai in Ezra, remember the sentence around it. God put this person in the story on purpose.
Read Ezra 2:2 again tomorrow and ask what the person is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Ezra 2:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
whocamewithZerubbabel,Jeshua,Nehemiah,Reelaiah,Mordecai,Bilshan,Bigvai,Rehum,andThenumberofthemenofthepeopleofIsrael: