Everyday words
Tombs
Start with Genesis 23:6, where the Bible uses the word tombs in a real sentence: ““Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:6
““Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.””
2. 1 Samuel 13:6
“When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.”
3. 2 Chronicles 21:20
“He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.”
4. 2 Chronicles 28:27
“Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.”
5. 2 Chronicles 32:33
“Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.”
6. 2 Chronicles 35:24
“So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.”
7. Nehemiah 2:3
“I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?””
8. Nehemiah 2:5
“I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 23:6
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
“Hearus,mylord.YouareaprinceofGodamongus.deadinthebestofourtombs.Noneofuswithholdfromyouhistomb.Buryyourdead.”