Places
Babylon in Joshua 7
BAB-ih-lun
This place shows up in Joshua 7:21: “When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Joshua 7:21
“When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.””
What kids can learn
When you hear babylon in Joshua, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Joshua 7:21 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Joshua 7:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
WhenIsawamongtheabeautifulBabylonianrobe,twohundredshekelsofsilver,andawedgeofweighingfiftyshekels,thenIthemandtookthem.Behold,theyarehiddeninthegroundinthemiddleofmytent,withthesilverunderit.”