Week 432 · about 45 minutes
2 Chronicles 29
2 Chronicles 29 · Memory verse 2 Chronicles 29:10
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (2 Chronicles 29), the matching word search and answer key (2 Chronicles 29 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a paper crown
Hold a paper crown. Read 2 Chronicles 29 in about four minutes, stopping at 2 Chronicles 29:10: “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 2 Chronicles 29?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
2 Chronicles 29 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.” 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, “Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign threw away when he was unfaithful, have we prepared and sanctified. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”” 2 Chronicles 29 opens with these words: “Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah,…” The line to keep is 2 Chronicles 29:10: “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.” Carry the word “heart” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 2 Chronicles 29:10: “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 2 Chronicles 29? Then try this: Read “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away…” 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 29. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 2 Chronicles 29:10. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 2 Chronicles 29 and write 2 Chronicles 29:10 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
2 Chronicles 29:10
“Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 2 Chronicles 29. Help us remember 2 Chronicles 29:10 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.