Places
Lebanon in Joshua 9
LEB-uh-nun
This place shows up in Joshua 9:1: “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Joshua 9:1
“When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it”
What kids can learn
When you hear lebanon in Joshua, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Joshua 9:1 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Joshua 9:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
allthekingswhowerebeyondtheJordan,inthehillandinthelowland,andonalltheshoreofthegreatseainfrontofLebanon,theHittite,theAmorite,theCanaanite,thetheHivite,andtheJebusite,heardofit