Week 431 · about 45 minutes
2 Chronicles 28
2 Chronicles 28 · Memory verse 2 Chronicles 28:10
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (2 Chronicles 28), the matching word search and answer key (2 Chronicles 28 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a wooden spoon
Hold a wooden spoon. Read 2 Chronicles 28 in about four minutes, stopping at 2 Chronicles 28:10: “Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 2 Chronicles 28?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
2 Chronicles 28 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, like David his father,” 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 the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the princes and all the assembly.” 2 Chronicles 28 opens with these words: “Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh’s…” The line to keep is 2 Chronicles 28:10: “Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own…” Carry the word “intend” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 2 Chronicles 28:10: “Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 2 Chronicles 28? Then try this: Read “Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves.…” 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 28. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 2 Chronicles 28:10. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 2 Chronicles 28 and write 2 Chronicles 28:10 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
2 Chronicles 28:10
“Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 2 Chronicles 28. Help us remember 2 Chronicles 28:10 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.