Everyday words
Overtake
Start with Genesis 19:19, where the Bible uses the word overtake in a real sentence: “See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:19
“See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.”
2. Genesis 44:4
“When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?”
3. Exodus 15:9
“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’”
4. Deuteronomy 19:6
“Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.”
5. Deuteronomy 28:2
“All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.”
6. Deuteronomy 28:15
“But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.”
7. Deuteronomy 28:45
“All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.”
8. 1 Samuel 30:8
“David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 19:19
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Seenow,yourhasfoundfavorinyoursight,andyouhavemagnifiedlovingkindness,whichyouhavetomeinsavingmylife.Ican’tescapetothemountain,lestevilovertakeme,andIdie.