Everyday words
Wanted
Start with Genesis 6:2, where the Bible uses the word wanted in a real sentence: “God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:2
“God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.”
2. Exodus 4:24
“On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.”
3. 1 Kings 13:33
“After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.”
4. Esther 9:2
“the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.”
5. Esther 9:5
“The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.”
6. Proverbs 1:25
“but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;”
7. Proverbs 1:30
“They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.”
8. Daniel 5:19
“Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.”
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Practice Genesis 6:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
God’ssonssawmen’sdaughterswerebeautiful,andtookanythatwantedforthemselvesaswives.