Week 339 · about 45 minutes
1 Kings 10
1 Kings 10 · Memory verse 1 Kings 10:24
Get the free weekly Sunday school and bedtime printable pack
For a parent or teacher. Children do not make accounts here. The pack is a week of printables, not a child profile.
Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (1 Kings 10), the matching word search and answer key (1 Kings 10 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a key
Hold a key. Read 1 Kings 10 in about four minutes, stopping at 1 Kings 10:24: “All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 1 Kings 10?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
1 Kings 10 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.” 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, “besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.” 1 Kings 10 opens with these words: “When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.” The line to keep is 1 Kings 10:24: “All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.” Carry the word “earth” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 1 Kings 10:24: “All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 1 Kings 10? Then try this: Read “All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.” 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 1 Kings 10. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 1 Kings 10:24. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 1 Kings 10 and write 1 Kings 10:24 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
1 Kings 10:24
“All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 1 Kings 10. Help us remember 1 Kings 10:24 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.