Everyday words
Slaughter
Start with Genesis 14:17, where the Bible uses the word slaughter in a real sentence: “The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 14:17
“The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).”
2. Joshua 10:10
“Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.”
3. Joshua 10:20
“When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,”
4. Judges 11:33
“He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.”
5. Judges 15:8
“He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.”
6. 1 Samuel 4:10
“The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.”
7. 1 Samuel 4:17
“He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.””
8. 1 Samuel 6:19
“He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.”
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Practice Genesis 14:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThekingofSodomwentouttomeethimafterhisreturnfromtheofChedorlaomerandthekingswhowerehim,atthevalleyofShavehis,theKing’sValley).