Week 271 · about 45 minutes
Judges 19
Judges 19 · Memory verse Judges 19:26
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Judges 19), the matching word search and answer key (Judges 19 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a wooden spoon
Hold a wooden spoon. Read Judges 19 in about four minutes, stopping at Judges 19:26: “Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Judges 19?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Judges 19 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.” Judges 19 opens with these words: “In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who…” The line to keep is Judges 19:26: “Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.” Carry the word “woman” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Judges 19:26: “Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Judges 19? Then try this: Read “Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Judges 19. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Judges 19:26. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Judges 19 and write Judges 19:26 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Judges 19:26
“Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Judges 19. Help us remember Judges 19:26 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.