Everyday words
Stronger
Start with Genesis 25:23, where the Bible uses the word stronger in a real sentence: “Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 25:23
“Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.””
2. Genesis 30:41
“Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;”
3. Genesis 30:42
“but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.”
4. Numbers 13:31
“But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.””
5. Judges 14:18
“The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.””
6. 2 Samuel 1:23
“Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.”
7. 2 Samuel 3:1
“Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.”
8. 2 Samuel 11:25
“Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 25:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehsaidtoher,“Twoareinyourwomb.Twopeoplesbeseparatedyourbody.Theonepeoplewillbestrongerthantheotherpeople.Theelderwillservetheyounger.”