People and promise
Comfort
Start with Genesis 5:29, where the Bible uses the word comfort in a real sentence: “He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 5:29
“He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.””
2. Genesis 37:35
“All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.”
3. 2 Samuel 10:2
“David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.”
4. 2 Samuel 19:7
“Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.””
5. 1 Chronicles 7:22
“Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.”
6. 1 Chronicles 19:2
“David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.”
7. Job 7:13
“When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’”
8. Job 10:20
“Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,”
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Practice Genesis 5:29
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
HenamedhimNoah,saying,“ThisonewillcomfortusinourworkandintheofourcausedbythegroundwhichYahwehhas