Week 312 · about 45 minutes
2 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 6 · Memory verse 2 Samuel 6:3
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (2 Samuel 6), the matching word search and answer key (2 Samuel 6 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a paper crown
Hold a paper crown. Read 2 Samuel 6 in about four minutes, stopping at 2 Samuel 6:3: “They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 2 Samuel 6?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
2 Samuel 6 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.” 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, “King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.” 2 Samuel 6 opens with these words: “David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.” The line to keep is 2 Samuel 6:3: “They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.” Carry the word “cart” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 2 Samuel 6:3: “They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 2 Samuel 6? Then try this: Read “They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and…” 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 2 Samuel 6. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 2 Samuel 6:3. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 2 Samuel 6 and write 2 Samuel 6:3 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
2 Samuel 6:3
“They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 2 Samuel 6. Help us remember 2 Samuel 6:3 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.