Everyday words
Eighteen
Start with Genesis 14:14, where the Bible uses the word eighteen in a real sentence: “When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 14:14
“When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.”
2. Judges 3:14
“The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.”
3. Judges 10:8
“They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.”
4. Judges 20:25
“Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.”
5. Judges 20:44
“Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.”
6. 2 Samuel 8:13
“David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.”
7. 1 Kings 7:15
“For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.”
8. 2 Kings 24:8
“Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.”
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Practice Genesis 14:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whenthathisrelativewastakencaptive,heledouthistrainedmen,borninhisthreehundredandeighteen,andpursuedasfarasDan.