Everyday words
Afflicted
Start with Genesis 12:17, where the Bible uses the word afflicted in a real sentence: “Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 12:17
“Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.”
2. Exodus 1:12
“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.”
3. Deuteronomy 26:6
“The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.”
4. Ruth 1:21
“I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?””
5. 2 Samuel 22:28
“You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.”
6. 2 Kings 17:20
“Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.”
7. Job 30:11
“For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.”
8. Job 34:28
“so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.”
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Practice Genesis 12:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
PharaohandhishousewithgreatplaguesbecauseofSarai,Abram’s