Everyday words
Pleases
Start with Genesis 20:15, where the Bible uses the word pleases in a real sentence: “Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 20:15
“Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.””
2. Deuteronomy 23:16
“He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.”
3. Judges 14:3
“Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.””
4. 1 Kings 21:6
“He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’””
5. Nehemiah 2:5
“I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.””
6. Nehemiah 2:7
“Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;”
7. Esther 2:4
“and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.”
8. Esther 3:9
“If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.””
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Practice Genesis 20:15
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
said,“Behold,mylandisyou.Dwellitpleasesyou.”