Week 354 · about 45 minutes
2 Kings 5
2 Kings 5 · Memory verse 2 Kings 5:3
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (2 Kings 5), the matching word search and answer key (2 Kings 5 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a smooth stone
Hold a smooth stone. Read 2 Kings 5 in about four minutes, stopping at 2 Kings 5:3: “She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 2 Kings 5?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
2 Kings 5 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.” 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, “Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.” 2 Kings 5 opens with these words: “Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given…” The line to keep is 2 Kings 5:3: “She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”” Carry the word “mistress” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 2 Kings 5:3: “She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 2 Kings 5? Then try this: Read “She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal…” 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 5. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 2 Kings 5:3. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 2 Kings 5 and write 2 Kings 5:3 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
2 Kings 5:3
“She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.””
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 2 Kings 5. Help us remember 2 Kings 5:3 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.