Everyday words
Philistines
Start with Genesis 10:14, where the Bible uses the word philistines in a real sentence: “Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 10:14
“Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.”
2. Genesis 21:32
“So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.”
3. Genesis 21:34
“Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.”
4. Genesis 26:1
“There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.”
5. Genesis 26:8
“When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.”
6. Genesis 26:14
“He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.”
7. Genesis 26:15
“Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.”
8. Genesis 26:18
“Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.”
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Practice Genesis 10:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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