Everyday words
Exceeding
Start with Genesis 27:34, where the Bible uses the word exceeding in a real sentence: “When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 27:34
“When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.””
2. Exodus 10:19
“Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.”
3. Numbers 14:7
“They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.”
4. 2 Chronicles 16:8
“Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.”
5. 2 Chronicles 20:19
“The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.”
6. Psalms 43:4
“Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.”
7. Daniel 3:22
“Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.”
8. Daniel 8:9
“Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 27:34
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
WhenEsauthewordsofhisfather,hewithanexceedinggreatandbittercry,andsaidtohis“Blessme,evenmealso,myfather.”