Everyday words
Sheba
Start with Genesis 10:7, where the Bible uses the word sheba in a real sentence: “The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 10:7
“The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.”
2. Genesis 25:3
“Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.”
3. Joshua 19:2
“They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,”
4. 2 Samuel 20:1
“There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!””
5. 2 Samuel 20:2
“So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.”
6. 2 Samuel 20:6
“David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.””
7. 2 Samuel 20:7
“Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.”
8. 2 Samuel 20:10
“But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.”
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Practice Genesis 10:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThesonsofSeba,Havilah,Raamah,andSabteca.ThesonsofRaamahwere:ShebaandDedan.