Week 735 · about 45 minutes
Isaiah 20
Isaiah 20 · Memory verse Isaiah 20:1
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Isaiah 20), the matching word search and answer key (Isaiah 20 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a piece of bread
Hold a piece of bread. Read Isaiah 20 in about four minutes, stopping at Isaiah 20:1: “In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Isaiah 20?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Isaiah 20 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;” 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 king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.” Isaiah 20 opens with these words: “In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;” The line to keep is Isaiah 20:1: “In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;” Carry the word “year” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Isaiah 20:1: “In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Isaiah 20? Then try this: Read “In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against…” 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 Isaiah 20. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Isaiah 20:1. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Isaiah 20 and write Isaiah 20:1 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Isaiah 20:1
“In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Isaiah 20. Help us remember Isaiah 20:1 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.