Everyday words
Smoke
Start with Genesis 19:28, where the Bible uses the word smoke in a real sentence: “He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:28
“He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.”
2. Exodus 19:18
“All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.”
3. Deuteronomy 29:20
“Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.”
4. Joshua 8:20
“When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.”
5. Joshua 8:21
“When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.”
6. Judges 20:38
“Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.”
7. Judges 20:40
“But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.”
8. 2 Samuel 22:9
“Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.”
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Practice Genesis 19:28
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
HelookedtowardSodomandGomorrah,andtowardallthelandoftheandlooked,andsawthattheofthelandupasthesmokeofafurnace.