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Start with Genesis 18:11, where the Bible uses the word advanced in a real sentence: “Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 18:11
“Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.”
2. Joshua 6:8
“It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them.”
3. Joshua 13:1
“Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.”
4. Joshua 23:1
“After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,”
5. Joshua 23:2
“Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.”
6. 1 Kings 1:1
“Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.”
7. Esther 3:1
“After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.”
8. Esther 5:11
“Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.”
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Practice Genesis 18:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowAbrahamandSarahold,advancedinage.hadpassedtheageofchildbearing.