Week 427 · about 45 minutes
2 Chronicles 24
2 Chronicles 24 · Memory verse 2 Chronicles 24:7
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (2 Chronicles 24), the matching word search and answer key (2 Chronicles 24 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a folded cloth
Hold a folded cloth. Read 2 Chronicles 24 in about four minutes, stopping at 2 Chronicles 24:7: “For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 2 Chronicles 24?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
2 Chronicles 24 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.” 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, “When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.” 2 Chronicles 24 opens with these words: “Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.” The line to keep is 2 Chronicles 24:7: “For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.” Carry the word “sons” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 2 Chronicles 24:7: “For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 2 Chronicles 24? Then try this: Read “For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated…” 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 24. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 2 Chronicles 24:7. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 2 Chronicles 24 and write 2 Chronicles 24:7 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
2 Chronicles 24:7
“For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 2 Chronicles 24. Help us remember 2 Chronicles 24:7 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.