Everyday words
Overthrow
Start with Genesis 19:21, where the Bible uses the word overthrow in a real sentence: “He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:21
“He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.”
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 15:7
“In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.”
4. Exodus 23:24
“You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.”
5. 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;”
6. 2 Samuel 10:3
“But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?””
7. 2 Samuel 11:25
“Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.””
8. 1 Chronicles 19:3
“But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 19:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Hesaidtohim,“Behold,Ihavegrantedrequestconcerningthisthingalso,thatIwillnotoverthrowtheofwhichyouhave