Week 388 · about 45 minutes
1 Chronicles 14
1 Chronicles 14 · Memory verse 1 Chronicles 14:4
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (1 Chronicles 14), the matching word search and answer key (1 Chronicles 14 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a seed
Hold a seed. Read 1 Chronicles 14 in about four minutes, stopping at 1 Chronicles 14:4: “These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 1 Chronicles 14?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
1 Chronicles 14 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.” 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, “Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.” 1 Chronicles 14 opens with these words: “Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.” The line to keep is 1 Chronicles 14:4: “These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,” Carry the word “names” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 1 Chronicles 14:4: “These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 1 Chronicles 14? Then try this: Read “These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,” 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 Chronicles 14. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 1 Chronicles 14:4. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 1 Chronicles 14 and write 1 Chronicles 14:4 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
1 Chronicles 14:4
“These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 1 Chronicles 14. Help us remember 1 Chronicles 14:4 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.