1 kings

VERSES: 1 Kings 15 through 2 Kings 24 MEMORY VERSE: 1 Kings 15:11 "And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD." BOOK TO REMEMBER: Psalms. Write "Psalms" on small slips of paper and hand out at the end of class. PRAYER: Pray for the parents of the students that they might do well in the eyes of the LORD. SPECIAL SONG: Children Obey your Parents (see March - Songs We Sing In Bible Class #4 on this blog). VISUAL AID: Use the whiteboard or the chalkboard as your piece of paper and…

Although most of the kings are more than one to a lesson, each king can be taught on its own. When possible, each new king begins on a new page; unless there is only basic information about him and/or there is only a paragraph about him. I have the 40 kings divided into 15 lessons; although if I were to teach them, I would probably take two quarters plus Saul, David and Solomon. Some of the kings will have visuals for the lesson. Although some do not and that is why it has taken so long to…

Baasha was king of Israel from 909–886 BC. His contemporary in Judah was King Asa, the great-grandson of King Solomon. The two kings were polar opposites—while Asa “did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done” (1 Kings 15:11), King Baasha was an evil ruler and followed idolatrous practices..

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1 Kings 6:1-38 NIV Solomon Builds the Temple 1In the four hundred and eightieth a year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build The Temple of The LORD. 2The Temple that King Solomon built for The LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high. b 3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits, c and projected ten…

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Bible journaling from 1 Kings about when God spoke to Elijah in a soft whisper as He tends to do. Are we listening when He does the same for us?

I'm sure we are all familiar with David from the Bible...the shepherd boy who became king. He slayed Goliath, penned many of the Psalms, fled from King Saul, and eventually ruled over all of Israel. He was a man of great courage who fought many battles, he was devoted to YHWH and there are many stories of his adventures in Scripture. But we don't often talk about the end of his life. When David was dying he poured his heart out to his son Solomon, who would proceed him in rule. He prayed for…