Everyday words
Furnace
Start with Genesis 15:17, where the Bible uses the word furnace in a real sentence: “It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 15:17
“It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.”
2. Genesis 19:28
“He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.”
3. Exodus 9:8
“Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.”
4. Exodus 9:10
“They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal.”
5. Exodus 19:18
“All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.”
6. Deuteronomy 4:20
“But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.”
7. 1 Kings 8:51
“(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);”
8. Psalms 12:6
“Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 15:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Itcametopassthesunwentdown,anditwasdark,behold,asmokingfurnace,andatorchpassedbetweenthesepieces.