Everyday words
Handle
Start with Genesis 4:21, where the Bible uses the word handle in a real sentence: “His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:21
“His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.”
2. Deuteronomy 19:5
“as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live.”
3. Judges 3:22
“and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.”
4. Judges 5:14
“Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.”
5. 1 Chronicles 12:8
“Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:”
6. Song of Solomon 3:8
“They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.”
7. Jeremiah 2:8
“The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and followed things that do not profit.”
8. Jeremiah 46:9
“Go up, you horses! Rage, you chariots! Let the mighty men go out: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.”
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Practice Genesis 4:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Hisbrother’swasJubal,whowastheofallwhohandletheandpipe.