Places
Berea in Ezekiel 5
buh-REE-uh
This place shows up in Ezekiel 5:17: “I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Ezekiel 5:17
“I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’””
What kids can learn
When you hear berea in Ezekiel, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Ezekiel 5:17 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Ezekiel 5:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillsendonyoufamineandevilanimals,andtheywillbereaveyou.Pestilenceandwillthroughyou.Iwilltheswordonyou.I,Yahweh,havespokenit.’”