Everyday words
Overthrew
Start with Genesis 19:25, where the Bible uses the word overthrew in a real sentence: “He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:25
“He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.”
2. Genesis 19:29
“When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.”
3. Exodus 14:27
“Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.”
4. Deuteronomy 29:23
“and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;”
5. 1 Chronicles 20:1
“At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.”
6. Psalms 136:15
“But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever:”
7. Isaiah 13:19
“Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”
8. Isaiah 14:17
“who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?””
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Practice Genesis 19:25
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Heoverthrewalltheplain,alltheinhabitantsofthecities,andthatgrewontheground.