Week 434 · about 45 minutes
2 Chronicles 31
2 Chronicles 31 · Memory verse 2 Chronicles 31:21
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (2 Chronicles 31), the matching word search and answer key (2 Chronicles 31 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a smooth stone
Hold a smooth stone. Read 2 Chronicles 31 in about four minutes, stopping at 2 Chronicles 31:21: “In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with 2 Chronicles 31?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
2 Chronicles 31 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.” 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, “Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.” 2 Chronicles 31 opens with these words: “Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the…” The line to keep is 2 Chronicles 31:21: “In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.” Carry the word “work” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is 2 Chronicles 31:21: “In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in 2 Chronicles 31? Then try this: Read “In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his…” 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 31. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from 2 Chronicles 31:21. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from 2 Chronicles 31 and write 2 Chronicles 31:21 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
2 Chronicles 31:21
“In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for 2 Chronicles 31. Help us remember 2 Chronicles 31:21 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.