Week 418 · about 45 minutes
2 Chronicles 15
2 Chronicles 15 · Memory verse 2 Chronicles 15:12
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (2 Chronicles 15), the matching word search and answer key (2 Chronicles 15 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a seed
Hold a seed. Read 2 Chronicles 15 in about four minutes, stopping at 2 Chronicles 15:12: “They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 2 Chronicles 15?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
2 Chronicles 15 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:” 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, “So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.” 2 Chronicles 15 opens with these words: “The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:” The line to keep is 2 Chronicles 15:12: “They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;” Carry the word “entered” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 2 Chronicles 15:12: “They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 2 Chronicles 15? Then try this: Read “They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all…” 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 Chronicles 15. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 2 Chronicles 15:12. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 2 Chronicles 15 and write 2 Chronicles 15:12 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
2 Chronicles 15:12
“They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 2 Chronicles 15. Help us remember 2 Chronicles 15:12 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.