Week 15 · about 45 minutes
Joshua and the Walls of Jericho
Joshua 6 · Memory verse Joshua 1:9
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Trumpets at Jericho), the matching word search and answer key (Joshua and Jericho), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a paper horn and a block tower
Hold up a paper horn and a block tower. In about five minutes, tell the class this: Joshua obeys an unusual plan, and Jericho’s walls fall after trumpets and a shout. Show the prop and ask, “What does this have to do with Joshua and the Walls of Jericho?” Let two children answer. Then read Joshua 1:9 together: “Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”” Close by asking one child to say the lesson back in their own words, using the prop.
Story script
Joshua was the new leader after Moses. Ahead of God’s people stood Jericho, a city with tall walls. God gave Joshua a strange plan. March around the city once a day for six days, with priests and the ark and trumpets. Do not shout yet.
Imagine the soldiers inside listening to footsteps and horns, day after day, and no attack. God’s people had to obey when the plan looked slow. On the seventh day they marched seven times. Then Joshua said, “Shout! The Lord has given you the city.”
They shouted, the trumpets sounded, and the walls collapsed. The battle belonged to the Lord. Rahab, a woman who had helped God’s spies and trusted him, was kept safe with her family because of a scarlet cord in her window.
Some problems look like walls. God may ask you to obey in small circles before anything loud happens: tell the truth, practice the song, be kind again. When it is time to shout — to try, to speak, to trust — he goes with you. Be strong and courageous.
Group game
March around the block tower six times quietly and the seventh time with a shout. Knock the tower down together and say the battle belongs to the Lord.
Craft
Draw trumpet players and falling bricks. Write Be strong and brave.
Memory verse
Joshua 1:9
“Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.””
Take-home prayer
Lord, the walls in front of me look tall. Help me obey you step by step and be strong because you are with me. Amen.