Everyday words
Rebuked
Start with Genesis 31:42, where the Bible uses the word rebuked in a real sentence: “Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:42
“Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.””
2. Genesis 37:10
“He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?””
3. Judges 8:1
“The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.”
4. Psalms 9:5
“You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.”
5. Psalms 106:9
“He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.”
6. Psalms 119:21
“You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.”
7. Proverbs 29:1
“He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.”
8. Jeremiah 29:27
“Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 31:42
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
UnlesstheGodofmyfather,theGodofAbraham,andthefearofhadbeenwithme,surelynowyouwouldhavesentmeawayempty.Godhasseenmyandthelaborofmyhands,andrebukedyounight.”