Everyday words
Tower
Start with Genesis 11:4, where the Bible uses the word tower in a real sentence: “They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:4
“They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.””
2. Genesis 11:5
“Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.”
3. Genesis 35:21
“Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.”
4. Judges 8:9
“He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.””
5. Judges 8:17
“He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.”
6. Judges 9:46
“When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.”
7. Judges 9:47
“Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.”
8. Judges 9:49
“All the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.”
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Practice Genesis 11:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Theysaid,“Come,let’sbuildacity,andatowerwhosetopreachestothesky,andlet’sanameforlestwebescatteredabroadonthesurfaceofthewholeearth.”