Everyday words
Rephaim
Start with Genesis 14:5, where the Bible uses the word rephaim in a real sentence: “In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 14:5
“In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,”
2. Genesis 15:20
“the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,”
3. Deuteronomy 2:11
“These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.”
4. Deuteronomy 2:20
“(That also is considered a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived there before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,”
5. Deuteronomy 3:11
“(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)”
6. Deuteronomy 3:13
“and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.”
7. Joshua 12:4
“and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,”
8. Joshua 13:12
“all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.”
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Practice Genesis 14:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
InthefourteenthyearChedorlaomercame,andthewhohim,andstrucktheRephaiminAshterothKarnaim,andtheZuziminHam,andtheEmiminShavehKiriathaim,