Places
Bethel in Joshua 18
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This place shows up in Joshua 18:13: “The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Joshua 18:13
“The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.”
What kids can learn
When you hear bethel in Joshua, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Joshua 18:13 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Joshua 18:13
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
TheborderpassedalongtheretoLuz,tothesideofLuzcalledBethel),TheborderwentdowntoAtarothAddar,bythemountainthatliesonthesouthofBethHoronthelower.