Everyday words
Quarter
Start with Genesis 19:4, where the Bible uses the word quarter in a real sentence: “But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:4
“But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.”
2. Numbers 34:3
“then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.”
3. Joshua 15:5
“The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.”
4. Joshua 18:12
“Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.”
5. Joshua 18:14
“The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.”
6. Joshua 18:15
“The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.”
7. Joshua 18:20
“The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.”
8. 2 Kings 22:14
“So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.”
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Practice Genesis 19:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Butbeforelaydown,themenofthecity,themenofSodom,surroundedthehouse,bothyoungandold,allthepeopleevery