Everyday words
Street
Start with Genesis 19:2, where the Bible uses the word street in a real sentence: “and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:2
“and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.””
2. Deuteronomy 13:16
“You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all of its plunder, to Yahweh your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.”
3. Joshua 2:19
“It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.”
4. Judges 19:15
“They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay.”
5. Judges 19:17
“He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?””
6. Judges 19:20
“The old man said, “Peace be to you; how ever let me supply all your needs. Just don’t sleep in the street.””
7. 2 Samuel 21:12
“So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;”
8. Job 18:17
“His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.”
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Practice Genesis 19:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andhesaid,“Seenow,mylords,pleasecomeintoyourservant’shouse,stayallwashyourandyoucanupearly,andgoonyourway.”Theysaid,“No,butwewillstayinthestreetallnight.”