People
Mordecai in Nehemiah 7
MOR-deh-kye
This person shows up in Nehemiah 7:7: “who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real person in a real place.
Nehemiah 7:7
“who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:”
What kids can learn
When you hear mordecai in Nehemiah, remember the sentence around it. God put this person in the story on purpose.
Read Nehemiah 7:7 again tomorrow and ask what the person is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Nehemiah 7:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
whocameZerubbabel,Jeshua,Nehemiah,Raamiah,Nahamani,Mordecai,Bilshan,Mispereth,Bigvai,Nehum,Baanah.TheofthemenofthepeopleofIsrael: