Everyday words
Amalekites
Start with Genesis 14:7, where the Bible uses the word amalekites in a real sentence: “They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 14:7
“They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.”
2. Numbers 14:45
“Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.”
3. Judges 6:3
“So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.”
4. Judges 6:33
“Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.”
5. Judges 7:12
“The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.”
6. Judges 10:12
“The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.”
7. Judges 12:15
“Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.”
8. 1 Samuel 14:48
“He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.”
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Practice Genesis 14:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Theyreturned,andcametoEnMishpatcalledKadesh),andstruckallthecountryoftheAmalekites,andalsotheAmorites,livedinHazazon