Everyday words
Euphrates
Start with Genesis 2:14, where the Bible uses the word euphrates in a real sentence: “The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:14
“The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.”
2. Genesis 15:18
“In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:”
3. Deuteronomy 11:24
“Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.”
4. Joshua 1:4
“From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.”
5. 2 Kings 23:29
“In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.”
6. 2 Kings 24:7
“The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt.”
7. 1 Chronicles 5:9
“and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.”
8. 1 Chronicles 18:3
“David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.”
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Practice Genesis 2:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
TheofthethirdriverisHiddekel.istheoneflowsinfrontofAssyria.ThefourthriveristheEuphrates.