Everyday words
Watch
Start with Genesis 31:49, where the Bible uses the word watch in a real sentence: “and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:49
“and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.”
2. Exodus 14:24
“In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.”
3. Judges 7:17
“He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.”
4. Judges 7:19
“So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.”
5. 1 Samuel 11:11
“On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.”
6. 1 Samuel 19:11
“Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.””
7. 1 Samuel 26:15
“David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.”
8. 1 Samuel 26:16
“This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.””
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Practice Genesis 31:49
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andMizpah,forhesaid,“Yahwehbetweenmeandyou,weareonefromanother.