Everyday words
Intend
Start with Genesis 11:6, where the Bible uses the word intend in a real sentence: “Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:6
“Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.”
2. 1 Kings 5:5
“Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’”
3. 2 Chronicles 13:8
““Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David. You are a great multitude, and the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you.”
4. 2 Chronicles 28:10
“Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?”
5. 2 Chronicles 28:13
“and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.””
6. Ezra 7:13
“I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.”
7. Nehemiah 6:6
“in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.”
8. Job 6:26
“Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?”
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Practice Genesis 11:6
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehsaid,theyareonepeople,andhaveallonelanguage,andthisiswhattheybegintodo.Nownothingwillbewithheldfromthem,whichintendtodo.