Week 843 · about 45 minutes
Ezekiel 5
Ezekiel 5 · Memory verse Ezekiel 5:5
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Ezekiel 5), the matching word search and answer key (Ezekiel 5 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small lamp
Hold a small lamp. Read Ezekiel 5 in about four minutes, stopping at Ezekiel 5:5: ““Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Ezekiel 5?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Ezekiel 5 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.” 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, “I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations.” Ezekiel 5 opens with these words: ““You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and…” The line to keep is Ezekiel 5:5: ““Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.” Carry the word “thus” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Ezekiel 5:5: ““Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Ezekiel 5? Then try this: Read ““Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries…” 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 Ezekiel 5. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Ezekiel 5:5. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Ezekiel 5 and write Ezekiel 5:5 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Ezekiel 5:5
““Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Ezekiel 5. Help us remember Ezekiel 5:5 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.