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Overview of 1 Chronicles
Sometimes a story is so good you want to hear it twice! Much of the history told in 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 and 2 Kings is retold in 1 and 2 Chronicles. At the end of those books, the people of Judah were taken as prisoners to Babylon. But many years later, some of them went home. Their history, including how the people worshipped God, is recorded in 1 and 2 Chronicles.
First Chronicles begins with long lists of names. These names are the people who were a part of the families of Israel (1 Chron 1-9). Keeping a record of these names reminded the people of God's promise to be with them.
The rest of this book tells about King David. It tells how he brought the chest containing the covenant to Jerusalem and how he worshipped God (1 Chron 13-16). This book also records all the ways David prepared for his son Solomon to build a beautiful temple for God. David called for skilled workers and expensive materials. He organized priests and musicians to serve in the temple (1 Chron 22-29). David wanted the whole world to know that God is great. First Chronicles shows how important it is to worship God!
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
First Chronicles begins with long lists of names. These names are the people who were a part of the families of Israel (1 Chron 1-9). Keeping a record of these names reminded the people of God's promise to be with them.
The rest of this book tells about King David. It tells how he brought the chest containing the covenant to Jerusalem and how he worshipped God (1 Chron 13-16). This book also records all the ways David prepared for his son Solomon to build a beautiful temple for God. David called for skilled workers and expensive materials. He organized priests and musicians to serve in the temple (1 Chron 22-29). David wanted the whole world to know that God is great. First Chronicles shows how important it is to worship God!
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
Bible Readings
We Are One Body (1 Chronicles 12:12-31) Reading
The believers on Corinth had many questions for Paul. The believers wanted to know how they each fit into the church.
"I am really good at playing music. Can my gift and talent be used by the church?" asked a believer.
"I am really good at praying for others," said another believer.
"I am really good at speaking in front of large crowds," said another believer.
"I am really good at listening," said another believer.
They wrote a letter to Paul for help.
"All of these gifts are very important. Each of you has been given a special gift from God. Nobody's gift is better than anyone else's. When we use our gifts together, we are like a body. We all need each other, just like we all need our body parts. We couldn't do all of the important things we need to do without our body parts, just like we can't do all the things Jesus wants us to do if we don't work together," wrote Paul.
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
"I am really good at playing music. Can my gift and talent be used by the church?" asked a believer.
"I am really good at praying for others," said another believer.
"I am really good at speaking in front of large crowds," said another believer.
"I am really good at listening," said another believer.
They wrote a letter to Paul for help.
"All of these gifts are very important. Each of you has been given a special gift from God. Nobody's gift is better than anyone else's. When we use our gifts together, we are like a body. We all need each other, just like we all need our body parts. We couldn't do all of the important things we need to do without our body parts, just like we can't do all the things Jesus wants us to do if we don't work together," wrote Paul.
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
Bring the Ark in Temple (1 Chronicles 13:1-13) Reading
Paul continued teaching the people in Corinth through his letter.
He wrote, "If I don't have love, I'm like a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal."
"If I know everything but I don't have love, I'm nothing."
"If I give away everything that I have but I don't have love, it doesn't make any difference."
"Love is patient, Love is kind. Love isn't jealous. Love doesn't brag. Love isn't rude. Love isn't
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
He wrote, "If I don't have love, I'm like a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal."
"If I know everything but I don't have love, I'm nothing."
"If I give away everything that I have but I don't have love, it doesn't make any difference."
"Love is patient, Love is kind. Love isn't jealous. Love doesn't brag. Love isn't rude. Love isn't
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
I Wonder....
- How long did it take to build the temple?
- Why they built the ark that way?
- How heavy the ark was when the priest's carried the ark into the temple?
- What the cloud looked like.
Discussion Questions
- How would you feel if God told you to build something for other's to worship in?
- When the cloud came over the temple. How did the people that saw the cloud feel? How would you feel if you were there?
- What part of the story did you like best?
- What part of the story is the most important?
- Where are you in this story?
- What part of this story is about you?
Videos
Godly Play
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Solomon Built the Temple
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Tips for Adults
First Chronicles retells the history of the kingdom of Israel. It features the story of King David, including how he planned to build God's temple.
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
Second Chronicles continues to retell the history of God's people. It explains how Israel split into two kingdoms - the northern kingdom of Israel and the souther kingdom of Judah. It tells the story of the people of Judah from the time of King Solomon until they were taken as prisoners to Babylon.
*Taken from Dee Blue Bible
*Taken from Dee Blue Bible
Elementary Track
Overview of 1 Chronicles
Sometimes a story is so good you want to hear it twice! Much of the history told in 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 and 2 Kings is retold in 1 and 2 Chronicles. At the end of those books, the people of Judah were taken as prisoners to Babylon. But many years later, some of them went home. Their history, including how the people worshipped God, is recorded in 1 and 2 Chronicles.
First Chronicles begins with long lists of names. These names are the people who were a part of the families of Israel (1 Chron 1-9). Keeping a record of these names reminded the people of God's promise to be with them.
The rest of this book tells about King David. It tells how he brought the chest containing the covenant to Jerusalem and how he worshipped God (1 Chron 13-16). This book also records all the ways David prepared for his son Solomon to build a beautiful temple for God. David called for skilled workers and expensive materials. He organized priests and musicians to serve in the temple (1 Chron 22-29). David wanted the whole world to know that God is great. First Chronicles shows how important it is to worship God!
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
First Chronicles begins with long lists of names. These names are the people who were a part of the families of Israel (1 Chron 1-9). Keeping a record of these names reminded the people of God's promise to be with them.
The rest of this book tells about King David. It tells how he brought the chest containing the covenant to Jerusalem and how he worshipped God (1 Chron 13-16). This book also records all the ways David prepared for his son Solomon to build a beautiful temple for God. David called for skilled workers and expensive materials. He organized priests and musicians to serve in the temple (1 Chron 22-29). David wanted the whole world to know that God is great. First Chronicles shows how important it is to worship God!
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
Overview of 1st and 2nd Chronicles by Bible Project
This video is 7:11 minutes long.
Bible Readings
Solomon Builds the Temple (2 Chronicles 3) Reading
Solomon began to build the Lord's temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moria, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, on the place David had prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. He began building in the second month of the fourth year of his rule. Solomon laid the foundation for these structures in order to build the temple of God. The length according to the old standard of measurement was ninety feet and the width thirty feet. Across the front of the temple was a porch as long as the temple was and thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high. He covered the inside walls with pure gold. He paneled the walls of the main room with pine, covered them with fine gold, and decorated them with palm trees and chains. He studded the room with precious stones for beauty; the gold was from Parvaim. He covered the room, its beams, doorframes, walls and doors with gold, and carved images of winged creatures on the walls. Then he made the most holy place. It was as long as the temple was wide, thirty feet long and thirty feet wide. He covered it with six hundred kikkars of fine gold. The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also covered the upper room with gold.
In the most holy place he formed two statues of winged creatures and covered them with gold. Together the wingspan of these creatures was thirty feet. One of the first creature's wings was seven and a half feet long and touched the temple wall, while the other wing was seven and a half feet long, touching the wing of the other creature. Similarly, one wing of the other creature was seven and a half feet long and touched the temple wall, while the other wing was seven and a half feet long and touched the other creature. The wings of these creatures extended thirty feet. They stood on their feet facing the main room.
Then he made the curtain out of fine linen and violet, purple, and crimson yarn, weaving winged creatures into it. Then he made two columns in from of the temple, fifty-two and a half feet high, with a seven and a half foot cap on top of each. Then he made chains like necklace and placed them on the tops of the columns. He made a hundred pomegranates and placed them into the chains. Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the south, the outher on the north. The one on the south he named Jachin, and the one on the north he named Boaz.
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
In the most holy place he formed two statues of winged creatures and covered them with gold. Together the wingspan of these creatures was thirty feet. One of the first creature's wings was seven and a half feet long and touched the temple wall, while the other wing was seven and a half feet long, touching the wing of the other creature. Similarly, one wing of the other creature was seven and a half feet long and touched the temple wall, while the other wing was seven and a half feet long and touched the other creature. The wings of these creatures extended thirty feet. They stood on their feet facing the main room.
Then he made the curtain out of fine linen and violet, purple, and crimson yarn, weaving winged creatures into it. Then he made two columns in from of the temple, fifty-two and a half feet high, with a seven and a half foot cap on top of each. Then he made chains like necklace and placed them on the tops of the columns. He made a hundred pomegranates and placed them into the chains. Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the south, the outher on the north. The one on the south he named Jachin, and the one on the north he named Boaz.
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
Brings Ark in Temple (2 Chronicles 5:2-14) Reading
Then Solomon assembled Israel's elders, all the tribal leaders, and the clan chieftains of Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the chest containing the Lord's covenant from Zion, David's City. Everyone in Israel assembled before the king in the seventh month. during the festival. When all Israel's elders had arrived, the Levites picked up the chest. They brought the chest, the meeting tent, and all the holy objects that were in the tent. The priests and the Levites brought them up, while King Solomon and the entire Israelite assembly that had joined him before the chest sacrificed countless sheep and oxen. The priests brought the chest containing the Lord's covenant to its designated spot beneath the wings over the place where the chest rested, covering the chest and its carrying poles. The carrying poles were so long that their tips could be seen from the holy place in from of the inner sanctuary, though they weren't visible from outside. They are still there today. Nothing was in the chest except the two stone tablets Moses placed there while at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they left Egypt.
Then the priests left the holy place. All the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, regardless of their divisions. All the levitical musicians - Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their families and relatives - were dressed in fine linen and stood east of the altar with cymbals, harps, and zithers, along with one hundred twenty priests blowing trumpets. The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the Lord as one. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other musical instruments, they began to sing, praising the Lord:
Yes, God is good!
Yes, God's Faithful love lasts forever!
Then a cloud filled the Lord's temple. The priests were unable to carry out their duties on account of the cloud because the Lord's glory filled God's temple.
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
Then the priests left the holy place. All the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, regardless of their divisions. All the levitical musicians - Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their families and relatives - were dressed in fine linen and stood east of the altar with cymbals, harps, and zithers, along with one hundred twenty priests blowing trumpets. The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the Lord as one. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other musical instruments, they began to sing, praising the Lord:
Yes, God is good!
Yes, God's Faithful love lasts forever!
Then a cloud filled the Lord's temple. The priests were unable to carry out their duties on account of the cloud because the Lord's glory filled God's temple.
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
I Wonder....
- How long did it take to build the temple?
- Why they built the ark that way?
- How heavy the ark was when the priest's carried the ark into the temple?
- What the cloud looked like.
Discussion Questions
- What part of the story did you like best?
- What part of the story is the most important?
- Where are you in this story?
- What part of this story is about you?
Video
Solomon Built the Temple
This video is 2:48 minutes long
Bible Project
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God is Listening by Lifetree Kids
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Build Up the Kingdom by Broward Church
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Only a Prayer Away by Lifetree Kids
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Content for Adults
First Chronicles retells the history of the kingdom of Israel. It features the story of King David, including how he planned to build God's temple.
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
Second Chronicles continues to retell the history of God's people. It explains how Israel split into two kingdoms - the northern kingdom of Israel and the souther kingdom of Judah. It tells the story of the people of Judah from the time of King Solomon until they were taken as prisoners to Babylon.
*Taken from Dee Blue Bible
*Taken from Dee Blue Bible
This video is 52:01 minutes long