Preschool 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 2 Chronicles
Much of the history explains 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 is recorded in 1 and 2 Chronicles.
This book beings with stories of King Solomon. When God offered to give Solomon whatever he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge to lead the people. God was pleased with this request and gave Solomon not only wisdom but also wealth and fame. When Solomon was king, God's people sprad across the land and grew powerful.
Second Chronicles then tells how the nation of Israel broke into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah. After that division. 2 Chronicles mostly tells the story of Judah and its kings. Many kings failed to follow God. But there were also kings like Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah who did what was right and helped people follow God.
The story ends with a decree by King Cryus of Persia, who let the people go free after they were prisoners in Babylon. King Cryus said that God's people should build a temple for God. Second Chronicles shows that God always has a plan to help people worship God!
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
This book beings with stories of King Solomon. When God offered to give Solomon whatever he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge to lead the people. God was pleased with this request and gave Solomon not only wisdom but also wealth and fame. When Solomon was king, God's people sprad across the land and grew powerful.
Second Chronicles then tells how the nation of Israel broke into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah. After that division. 2 Chronicles mostly tells the story of Judah and its kings. Many kings failed to follow God. But there were also kings like Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah who did what was right and helped people follow God.
The story ends with a decree by King Cryus of Persia, who let the people go free after they were prisoners in Babylon. King Cryus said that God's people should build a temple for God. Second Chronicles shows that God always has a plan to help people worship God!
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
Bible Readings
Solomon Builds a 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
Bring the Ark in Temple (2 Chronicles 5) 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
- 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
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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 2 Chronicles
Much of the history explains 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 is recorded in 1 and 2 Chronicles.
This book beings with stories of King Solomon. When God offered to give Solomon whatever he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge to lead the people. God was pleased with this request and gave Solomon not only wisdom but also wealth and fame. When Solomon was king, God's people sprad across the land and grew powerful.
Second Chronicles then tells how the nation of Israel broke into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah. After that division. 2 Chronicles mostly tells the story of Judah and its kings. Many kings failed to follow God. But there were also kings like Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah who did what was right and helped people follow God.
The story ends with a decree by King Cryus of Persia, who let the people go free after they were prisoners in Babylon. King Cryus said that God's people should build a temple for God. Second Chronicles shows that God always has a plan to help people worship God!
*Taken from Deep Blue Bible
This book beings with stories of King Solomon. When God offered to give Solomon whatever he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge to lead the people. God was pleased with this request and gave Solomon not only wisdom but also wealth and fame. When Solomon was king, God's people sprad across the land and grew powerful.
Second Chronicles then tells how the nation of Israel broke into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah. After that division. 2 Chronicles mostly tells the story of Judah and its kings. Many kings failed to follow God. But there were also kings like Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah who did what was right and helped people follow God.
The story ends with a decree by King Cryus of Persia, who let the people go free after they were prisoners in Babylon. King Cryus said that God's people should build a temple for God. Second Chronicles shows that God always has a plan to help people 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
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Bible Project
Songs
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
Each Sunday there will be a class addressing the reading for that week. The classes will engage the particular Bible book for that week, paying specific attention to a theme or topic. A list of January's classes are below. These classes are hybrid and will meet each Sunday, in-person (EM307/308) and on Zoom, at 10:05am. The Zoom link is at the bottom of this email and is the same for each week.
Week Beginning on:
Topic: Gathering Together Around God's Word | Sunday Class
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Week Beginning on:
- April 24th - The Temple and Worship in Chronicles (Will Wellman)
- May 1st - Resting Community; Excluding Outsiders (Marsha Rydberg)
- May 8th - Saving the Jews (Marsha Rydberg)
- May 15th - Suffering & the Message of Job (Will Wellman)
- May 22nd - Wisdom Literature and Faithful Living (Rev. Bill Hull)
- May 29th - Reflecting on the Meaning of Life (Rev. Chuck Jones)
Topic: Gathering Together Around God's Word | Sunday Class
Time: Every Sunday 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Passcode: 328476
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