Everyday words
Building
Start with Genesis 11:8, where the Bible uses the word building in a real sentence: “So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:8
“So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.”
2. 1 Kings 3:1
“Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.”
3. 1 Kings 6:12
““Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.”
4. 1 Kings 6:38
“In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.”
5. 1 Kings 7:1
“Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.”
6. 1 Kings 9:1
“When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,”
7. 1 Kings 15:21
“When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.”
8. 1 Chronicles 28:2
“Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.”
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Practice Genesis 11:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Soscatteredthemabroadonthesurfaceofalltheearth.Theystoppedbuildingthecity.