Everyday words
Eliezer
Start with Genesis 15:2, where the Bible uses the word eliezer in a real sentence: “Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 15:2
“Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?””
2. Exodus 18:4
“The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.””
3. 1 Chronicles 7:8
“The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.”
4. 1 Chronicles 15:24
“Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.”
5. 1 Chronicles 23:15
“The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.”
6. 1 Chronicles 23:17
“The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.”
7. 1 Chronicles 26:25
“His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.”
8. 1 Chronicles 27:16
“Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 15:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Abramsaid,“LordYahweh,whatyoume,sinceIgochildless,andhewhowillinheritmyisEliezerofDamascus?”