Everyday words
Ophir
Start with Genesis 10:29, where the Bible uses the word ophir in a real sentence: “Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 10:29
“Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.”
2. 1 Kings 9:28
“They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.”
3. 1 Kings 10:11
“The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones.”
4. 1 Kings 22:48
“Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.”
5. 1 Chronicles 1:23
“Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.”
6. 1 Chronicles 29:4
“even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;”
7. 2 Chronicles 8:18
“Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.”
8. 2 Chronicles 9:10
“The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees and precious stones.”
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Practice Genesis 10:29
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andJobab.AllwerethesonsofJoktan.