Week 353 · about 45 minutes
2 Kings 3
2 Kings 3 · Memory verse 2 Kings 3:2
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (2 Kings 3), the matching word search and answer key (2 Kings 3 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small lamp
Hold a small lamp. Read 2 Kings 3 in about four minutes, stopping at 2 Kings 3:2: “He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 2 Kings 3?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
2 Kings 3 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.” 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, “Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.” 2 Kings 3 opens with these words: “Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve…” The line to keep is 2 Kings 3:2: “He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.” Carry the word “evil” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 2 Kings 3:2: “He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 2 Kings 3? Then try this: Read “He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away…” 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 Kings 3. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 2 Kings 3:2. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 2 Kings 3 and write 2 Kings 3:2 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
2 Kings 3:2
“He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 2 Kings 3. Help us remember 2 Kings 3:2 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.