Places
Bethlehem in Judges 19
BETH-leh-hem
This place shows up in Judges 19:1: “In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Judges 19:1
“In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.”
What kids can learn
When you hear bethlehem in Judges, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Judges 19:1 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Judges 19:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Inthosedays,therewasnokinginIsrael,therewasacertainLevitelivingonthefarthersideofthehillcountryofEphraim,whotookforhimselfaoutofJudah.