Everyday words
Withheld
Start with Genesis 11:6, where the Bible uses the word withheld in a real sentence: “Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:6
“Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.”
2. Genesis 20:6
“God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.”
3. Genesis 22:12
“He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.””
4. Genesis 22:16
“and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,”
5. Genesis 30:2
“Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?””
6. 1 Samuel 25:26
“Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.”
7. 1 Samuel 25:34
“For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.””
8. Job 22:7
“You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 11:6
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehsaid,theyareonepeople,andhaveallonelanguage,andthisiswhattheybegintodo.Nownothingwillbewithheldfromthem,whichintendtodo.