Everyday words
Mahanaim
Start with Genesis 32:2, where the Bible uses the word mahanaim in a real sentence: “When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 32:2
“When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.”
2. Joshua 13:26
“and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;”
3. Joshua 13:30
“Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.”
4. Joshua 21:38
“Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,”
5. 2 Samuel 2:8
“Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;”
6. 2 Samuel 2:12
“Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.”
7. 2 Samuel 2:29
“Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.”
8. 2 Samuel 17:24
“Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 32:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whenhesawthem,said,“ThisisGod’sHecalledtheofthatplaceMahanaim.