Everyday words
Destroyed
Start with Genesis 7:23, where the Bible uses the word destroyed in a real sentence: “Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 7:23
“Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.”
2. Genesis 13:10
“Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.”
3. Genesis 19:29
“When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.”
4. Exodus 8:9
“Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.””
5. Exodus 10:7
“Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?””
6. Exodus 22:20
““He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.”
7. Numbers 21:3
“Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.”
8. Deuteronomy 2:12
“The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)”
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Practice Genesis 7:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
livingthingwasdestroyedthatwasonthesurfaceoftheground,man,creepingthings,andbirdsofthesky.Theyweredestroyedfromtheearth.OnlyNoahwasleft,andthosewhowerewithhimintheship.