Everyday words
Knees
Start with Genesis 30:3, where the Bible uses the word knees in a real sentence: “She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 30:3
“She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.””
2. Genesis 48:12
“Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.”
3. Genesis 50:23
“Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.”
4. Deuteronomy 28:35
“Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.”
5. Judges 7:5
“So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.””
6. Judges 7:6
“The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.”
7. Judges 16:19
“She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.”
8. 1 Kings 8:54
“It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 30:3
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
She“Behold,myBilhah.Gointoher,thatshemaybearonmyknees,andIalsomayobtainbyher.”