Everyday words
Strife
Start with Genesis 13:7, where the Bible uses the word strife in a real sentence: “There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 13:7
“There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.”
2. Genesis 13:8
“Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.”
3. Numbers 27:14
“because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)”
4. Deuteronomy 1:12
“How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?”
5. Judges 12:2
“Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.”
6. 2 Samuel 19:9
“All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.”
7. Job 33:19
“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;”
8. Psalms 31:20
“In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.”
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Practice Genesis 13:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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