Everyday words
Helper
Start with Genesis 2:18, where the Bible uses the word helper in a real sentence: “Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:18
“Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.””
2. Genesis 2:20
“The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.”
3. 2 Kings 14:26
“For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.”
4. Psalms 30:10
“Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.””
5. Psalms 43:5
“Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.”
6. Psalms 54:4
“Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.”
7. Psalms 72:12
“For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.”
8. Jeremiah 47:4
“because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 2:18
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
God“Itisnotgoodforthemantobealone.Iwillmakehimahelpertohim.”