Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 1 - Creation
Aim: To teach the students that God is our Creator
and that what He created is good.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 1-2
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define unfamiliar words - firmament, dominion, and vegetation -
and place on
Word Wall.
Review Questions:
Because
this is the beginning of the OT study, there are no review questions.
Lesson Text:
I.
Day 1: Light - Separation Genesis 1:3-5
A. Day - morning
B. Night - evening
C.
God saw that it was good!
II. Day 2:
Firmament (the sky or heavens) Genesis 1:6-8
A. Purpose:
to divide the waters from the waters
B. Creating this formed the sky above and the
oceans below
III. Day 3: Dry Land, Seas and Vegetation Genesis 1:9-13
A. Ground was called earth
B. Water was gathered to one place and called
the seas.
C. God spoke vegetation into existence
1. Let the earth put forth vegetation
a.
grass and seed bearing plants
b.
fruit trees bearing fruit
D.
God saw that it was good!
IV. Day 4: Sun, Moon and the Stars Genesis 1:14-19
A. Purposes
1. to separate the day from the night
2. to bring about the seasons, to mark the days
and the years
3. to light the earth
B. God made two great lights
1. the Sun - the greater light to rule the day
2. the Moon - the lesser light to rule the night
C. God made the stars also on Day 4
D. God saw that it was good!
V. Day 5:
Fish and Birds Genesis 1:20-23
A. Let the waters bring forth moving, living
creatures - fish
B. Let the birds fly above the earth in the
heavens
C. God told the birds and fish to "Be
fruitful and multiply."
D. God saw
that it was good!
VI. Day 6: Creatures of All Kinds Genesis 1:24-31
A. Creatures according to its own kind
1. Cattle and creeping things (reptiles)
2. Wildlife
B. Man in His own image
1. Man - Genesis
1:27
2. Woman - Genesis
2:18-25
C. Man is placed "in charge of" or
having dominion over all
1. Fish
2. Birds
3. Cattle
4. All of the earth
5. Everything that moves
D. God saw everything that He had made and it
was very good!
VII. God ended His
work Genesis
2:1-3
A. The heavens and the earth were finished
B. On the 7th day, God rested from this
particular work.
Application :
When we
look at the world around us, many people will tell us that it "just
happened" after a big blast. They
will tell us that everything by accident came together the way that it is
today, but we, as children of God, know better than that. We know that our Heavenly Father created all
of the wonderful things in the world for us to enjoy. He could have made the world ugly without any
pretty flowers or trees or sunshine; but He wants what is best for us. He wants us to enjoy the world that He made
for us.
Suggested songs:
"God is so Good" and "Did you know God made the
light?"
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Songs:
"God Is So
Good"
God is so good
God is so good,
God is so good,
He's so good to me.
"Did you Know God Made the Light?"
(tune: Oh, Be Careful
Little Eyes What you See)
Verse 1: Did you know
God made the light, He made the light?
Did you know God made the light, He made the light?
Oh just look around and see what He's made for you and me,
On Day 1 God made the light, He made the light.
Verse 2: Did you know
God made the heavens, He made the heavens?
Did you know God made the heavens, He made the heavens?
Oh just look around and see what He's made for you and me,
On Day 2 God made the
heavens, He made the heavens.
Verse 3: Did you know
God made the plants and flowers and trees?
Did you know God made the plants and flowers and trees?
Oh just look around and see what He's made for you and me,
On Day 3 God made the plants and flowers and trees.
Verse 4: Did you know
God made the sun and moon and stars?
Did you know God made the sun and moon and stars?
Oh just look around and see what He's made for you and me,
On Day 4 God made the sun and moon and stars.
Verse 5: Did you know
God made the fish and the birds?
Did you know God made the fish and the birds?
Oh just look around and see what He's made for you and me,
On Day 5 God made the fish and the birds.
Verse 6: Did you know
God made all creatures great and small?
Did you know God made all creatures great and small?
Oh just look around and see what He's made for you and me,
On Day 6 God made all creatures great and small.
Can also be sung
naming the days instead of "Did you know".
On day 1 God made the
light, He made the light. For verse 2, it would be - On day 2 God made the
heavens, He made the heavens, etc.
I saw a similar cube on Pinterest and thought I could use that same idea and add my twist to it, so this is what I came up with. This cube can be easily made to help the children understand creation and the various things that were created on each day.
Begin by using square Kleenex box or a Styrofoam cube or any type of box that has 6 sides and a roll of wrapping paper to cover the cube with. I used just plain white wrapping paper.. Wrap it like a present.
Genesis
Lesson: Creation
Hands-on Activity for Lesson Reinforcement: Creation Cube
I saw a similar cube on Pinterest and thought I could use that same idea and add my twist to it, so this is what I came up with. This cube can be easily made to help the children understand creation and the various things that were created on each day.
Begin by using square Kleenex box or a Styrofoam cube or any type of box that has 6 sides and a roll of wrapping paper to cover the cube with. I used just plain white wrapping paper.. Wrap it like a present.
Next, add the numbers 1-6 to the cube, one number for each side of the cube.
Day 1: Light
I then used scrapbook paper to have some added interest on each side. You can look through the sides and see what I've added to the "backgrounds". After that, almost all of the added objects were stickers that I found at Hobby Lobby. I thought these would be easy for the kids to apply in class. I went ahead before class and placed all of the stickers that each student would need for their Creation Cube in a Ziploc baggie. It was easier for me to separate the stickers and give each child a set of stickers instead of trying to hand those out in class. Then during class, the kids added the stickers as we covered each day of creation. (You may need to add a few things to the cube before class time, depending on how much class time you have to work with.)I had approximately 30 minutes to complete this project and it took every bit of the 30 minutes. I used this as my teaching tool going over each day of creation as we added the stickers for that day.
Creation Cubes prepared and waiting for Bible Class time! My completed one, the example is on the bottom row in the center.
Day 2: The heavens
Day 3: The plants, and flowers and trees
Day 4: The sun, and moon and stars
Day 5: The fish and birds
Day 6: The animals, Adam and Eve
My K-1 Bible Class kids working on their Creation Cubes in Class.
The finished project: Creation Cubes
Just an FYI... I must say, I was really pleased. After completing the backgrounds and numbers on mine, I covered it with clear packing tape to protect it. (You might not be able to tell in this photo, but mine has a shiny appearance.) I also put a strip of packing tape where each side meets on the kid's cubes. I thought that this would be the most likely place for the wrapping paper and backgrounds to tear or pull away.
Creation cube covered with packing tape to protect it.
We usually sing a little song that goes with the Creation. The tune is: Oh Be Careful Little Eyes What You See. The verses are as follows:
Verse 1: Did you know God made the light, He made the light?
Did you know God made the light, He made the light?
So just look around and see what He's made for you and me,
On day 1 He made the light, He made the light.
Verse 2: Did you know God made the heavens, He made the heavens?
Did you know God made the heavens, He made the heavens?
So just look around and see what He's made for you and me,
On day 2 He made the heavens, He made the heavens.
Verse 3: Plants, and flowers and trees
Verse 4: Sun and moon and stars
Verse 5: Fish and the birds
Verse 6: Animals, Adam and Eve
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 2 – Fall of
man
Aim: To teach the students that we must obey God
in order to please Him.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 2:8-17 , Genesis 3:1-24
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define unfamiliar words – knowledge, cunning, serpent- and place on Word
Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
Lesson Text:
After man was created…
I.
Man was placed in the Garden of Eden
A. God planted a garden
B. God placed trees in the garden
1. Trees bore food
2. Two specific trees placed in the garden
a.
Tree of Life
b.
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
1. Forbidden tree
2. Told by God – “If you eat, you shall surely
die.”
C. Four rivers flowed through the garden to
water the garden
II. Woman was created on Day 6
A. It was not good for man to be alone
B. God formed woman
1. God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam.
2. God took one of Adam’s ribs and formed it
into Eve.
III. Disobedience of Man
A. Satan speaks to Eve
1. Satan came in the form of a serpent.
2. Satan told Eve that it would be okay to eat
of The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
3. Satan told Eve that she would not die if she
ate of the tree and that God did not want her to eat
of it because…
a.
God knows that when you eat of it, you will become smart like God.
b.
By eating of it, you will know good from evil
B. Eve ate some of the fruit and gave some to
Adam also
1. Eyes of both were opened
2. They knew that they were naked
IV. Man
tried to hide from God because he realized he had sinned.
V.
Punishment for Sin
A. The serpent would crawl on his belly and eat
dust all of his life.
B. Eve would have pain in childbearing
C. Adam would make a living by the sweat of his
brow – thorns and thistles would grow in the ground
that he was farming and it would make
farming difficult for him.
D. Adam and Eve were both driven from the garden
and could not return
Application :
Just as God
expected Adam and Eve to obey Him, He expects us to obey Him also. One way that we can obey God is by obeying
our parents. Just as God knew what was
best for Adam and Eve, our parents know what is best for us.
Suggested songs:
“Obedience”
Other Ways to Reinforce
the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Song:
“Obedience”
Obedience is the very best way to show that you believe.
Doing exactly what the Lord commands,
And doing it happ-i-ly.
Action is the key, do it immediately,
Joy you will receive.
Obedience is the very best way to show that you believe.
O-B-E-D-I-E-N-C-E
Obedience is the very best way to show that you believe.
Genesis
Lesson: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Lesson Reinforcement: A visual of the serpent with Bible verse attached.
Supplies Needed: 1 snake per child, brown spray-paint, google eyes, red paper for tongue, large tongue depressors, and the scripture Genesis 3:1-5 mounted on cardstock - 1 per child.
1. Begin by spray painting the unfinished snakes brown. (I purchased my little wooden snakes at Michaels Craft Store for $1 each. I really liked this type of snake because of it's flexibility. I also happened to find the spray paint on clearance at the same store for .79.)
2. Spray paint the wooden snakes.
3. Hot glue google eyes on the snakes and glue the long red tongue in the snake's mouth.
4. Hot glue 3 large tonue depressors together make a T shape.
5. Hot glue the painted snake onto the T shape.
6. Hot glue the scripture associated with the serpent lying to Eve onto the T shape. (I had already typed up the scripture, mounted it onto cardstock and laminated it.) . (Genesis 3:1-5)
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 3 – Cain and
Abel
Aim: To show that we must not be jealous of one
another and act ugly toward each other but
that we must love one another and treat each other with respect.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 4:1-16
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the word jealousy and place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
Lesson Text:
I. The Children of Adam and Eve Genesis 4:1-2
A. Cain
1. Firstborn
2. Tiller of the ground (farmer)
B. Abel
1. Second born
2. Shepherd
II. Offerings to the Lord Genesis 4:3-7
A. Cain
1. Brought some of the fruit of the ground –
some from his crops.
2. God was not pleased with Cain’s offering
3. Cain became very angry about this. He was
very angry that God had accepted Abel’s offering but not
his.
B.
Abel
1. Brought of the best of his flock
2. God was pleased with Abel’s offering
III. Cain and Abel in the field
Genesis 4:8-10
A. Cain told Abel – “Let us go out to the
field”.
B. When they were in the field, Cain attacked
his brother, Abel and killed him.
C. God asked Cain where his brother was and Cain
responded by saying, “I
do not know. Am I my brother’s
keeper?”
IV. Cain’s Punishment Genesis 4:11-16
A. God cursed the ground - When Cain worked the
ground as a farmer, the ground would not yield food for him.
B.
Cain left Eden
and the presence of God went to the land
of Nod
Application
:
Did Cain
have the kind of love for his brother that he should have had? NO!
Cain was very jealous of his brother.
He was very angry that God had accepted Abel’s sacrifice and not his
own. Cain was so angry that he killed
his own brother! Sometimes we become
jealous of our brothers and sisters. We
might be jealous of the things that they have or of their friends; but, this is
not the way we should feel. Just like it
was wrong for Cain to be jealous of his brother, it is wrong for us also.
Suggested songs:
“Love One
Another”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
(chorus only)
Love one another, thus saith the Savior,
Children obey the Father’s blest command.
Love one another, thus saith the Savior,
Children obey His blest command.
Cain and Abel Stick Figures
Supplies needed: One of each stick figure, Cain and Abel, for each student, glue stick, 1 piece of construction paper per child, one zip lock bag per student
3. Have the children glue the Cain and Abel stick figures to the construction paper placing the correct body, legs, and arm with the correct head.
Genesis:
Lesson: Cain and Abel
Visuals to help the students understand what type of work that Cain and Abel did.
Hands on Activity
Cain and Abel Stick Figures
I originally saw this on Pinterest. Not original but simple and genius!
Supplies needed: One of each stick figure, Cain and Abel, for each student, glue stick, 1 piece of construction paper per child, one zip lock bag per student
Directions:
1. Make one copy of each stick figure for each student.
2. Place all of the paper body parts in one ziplock bag and give to the student along with a glue stick and a piece of construction paper.
3. Have the children glue the Cain and Abel stick figures to the construction paper placing the correct body, legs, and arm with the correct head.
Alternative: These can also be run onto cardstock, cut out, then laminated. Once laminated and cut out, place a magnet on the back of each piece. The students can "put their Cain and Abel together" by placing each magnetized body part with the correct head a cookie sheet. They can also be taken home and placed on the student's refrigerator.
If you have students that are non-readers, these can easily be adapted by using pictures on each body part instead of the. (I used the red head for Cain to symbolize blood/death to help the kids remember that Cain killed Abel. Also, another little thing that I do to help us remember what jobs they each had is to use the word "crops" with Cain. That is a little bit helpful as they both begin with the "K" sound.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 4 – Noah and
the Ark
Aim: To show the importance of obedience to God.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 6:5-22
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the word ark and place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was
pleased with which brother’s offering?
Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
Lesson Text:
I.
Man was very wicked Genesis 6:5-8
A. Man was continually thinking about evil.
B. God was sorry that He had made man. (It made Him very sad.)
C.
God said that He would destroy man, every creeping thing, beasts and
fowls.
II. Noah.
Gen. 6:8-10
A. Noah was a pleasure to the Lord
B. Noah was a righteous, blameless man.
C. Noah walked with God
D. Noah was married and had 3 sons.
1. Shem
2. Ham
3. Japheth
III. Instructions were given to Noah Genesis 6:11-17
A. Make an ark of gopher wood
1. Build rooms inside it – make 3 decks or
stories inside the ark
2. Cover it inside and out with pitch (asphalt
like substance)
3. Size – about the length of a football field
a.
300 cubits long (450 ft.)
b.
50 cubits wide (75 ft.)
c.
30 cubits high (45 ft.)
4. Make a door in the side of the ark
5. Make a window in the ark
C. Take 2 of each animal (male and female) into
the ark and 7 pairs of the
animals considered to be clean animals
D. Collect and store enough food for you and
your family and the animals.
E. Take his wife, his sons and their wives onto
the ark with him along with the animals because God will
bring a flood to destroy everything
that was on the earth.
IV. The Rains Begin Genesis 7:10-19
A. After Noah and his family went into the ark,
God closed the door
B.
After 7 days, God caused it to begin raining
C. The rains began in the 600th year
of Noah’s life
D. It rained for 40 days and nights
E. Everything under the heavens was covered with
water from the rain.
Application :
Noah obeyed
God and had great faith in God. This is
what a true servant of God is. Even
though the people around Noah thought that he was crazy for building such a
huge boat, Noah knew in his heart that God would send a flood. He knew that because hat is what God had told
him. Noah knew that God would keep His
word. Today, someone may laugh at us for
doing the right thing when everyone else is doing the wrong thing. When that happens, we must believe that as
long as we are doing God’s will, He will take care of us just like He took care
of Noah and his family.
Suggested songs:
“Obedience”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
"Noah Obey's God"
Genesis:
Lesson: Noah and the Ark
"Noah Obey's God"
Lapbook
The photos used for this lap book can be found at www.freebibleimages.com.
An accordion style lap book template can be easily made by dividing an 8.5x11 sheet of paper into 8 equal rectangles using Microsoft Word. (See below.) I'm sure there is a much easier way to do this but once I got the template down, I was able to use it over and over. I then added a picture and a text box in each rectangle so to tell the story.
How to assemble the lap book.
An accordion style lap book template can be easily made by dividing an 8.5x11 sheet of paper into 8 equal rectangles using Microsoft Word. (See below.) I'm sure there is a much easier way to do this but once I got the template down, I was able to use it over and over. I then added a picture and a text box in each rectangle so to tell the story.
How to assemble the lap book.
Directions: Run one colored copy of "Noah Obeys God" per child onto white paper. Next cut in half on the solid horizontal line.
Glue the last box of the first row onto the empty box on the second row. You should now have one long strip of story boxes.
Fold along the solid vertical line on the right side of page 3. Next, fold along the solid vertical line on the right side of the front cover.
Last of all, fold along all remaining vertical lines. After folding, you will have an Accordion style lap book for the students to take home as a visual reminder of the Bible lesson.
***These can be copied onto white cardstock for a sturdier version.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 6 – The Tower of Babel
Aim: To impress on the students that fact that we
should never allow ourselves to think that
we are powerful like God. God holds all
power in His hands and our desire should
be to please Him as our creator.
Scripture Reference: Genesis 10–11:9
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the word tower and place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was
pleased with which brother’s offering?
Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
12. What did God tell Noah to do? Build an ark
13. Why?
Because he was going to destroy the earth
14. How many people were saved from the
flood? 8 – Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
their wives
15. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights
16. What kind of bird did Noah send out that
brought back an olive leaf? Dove
17. What did God place in the sky as a sign of
his promise with Noah? rainbow
Lesson Text:
I.
Review how Noah’s family has grown since the flood Genesis 10 - 11:2
A. People all had one language
B. Lived in the land of Shinar
II. The descendants of Noah decide to build
a city and a tower. Genesis 11:3-4
A.
They made bricks and mortar
B. They wanted to build a tower that would reach
heavens.
III. God scatters the people. Genesis 11:5--9
A. God came down and saw the city and the tower
they were making
B. God knew that nothing would keep them from
doing what they chose
and
forgetting Him.
C. God confused their language so they could not
understand each other.
D. Because they could not understand one
another, they scattered all over the earth.
E. The name of the place was called Babel
Application :
Are there
ever times when we think that we can do anything we want we don’t give any
thought to God who created us and made everything for us? That’s exactly what happened in our lesson. We need to be very careful that we always
know what part God plays in our lives and always give Him thanks and honor for
the things that we have or are able to do.
Everything is in God’s hands.
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets provided
in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 7 – The Trials
of Job
Aim: To impress on the students the importance of
patience and “waiting on the Lord”
even in the
most difficult times.
Scripture
Reference: Job
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the words patience and trial and place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was
pleased with which brother’s offering?
Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
12. What did God tell Noah to do? Build an ark
13. Why?
Because he was going to destroy the earth
14. How many people were saved from the
flood? 8 – Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
their wives
15. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights
16. What kind of bird did Noah send out that
brought back an olive leaf? Dove
17. What did God place in the sky as a sign of
his promise with Noah? Rainbow
18. How many languages did Noah’s family who
lived in the land
of Shinar
Only
one
19. What did they want to build that would reach
to heaven? A tower
20. Was God happy with this? NO!
21. What did God do to stop their building the
tower? He confused their language
So
they couldn’t understand each other.
Because of this they scattered across
the earth.
22. What was the name of the tower? Babel
Lesson Text:
I. Who was Job? Job 1:1-5
A. A man who lived in the Land of Uz
B. He was blameless, upright, feared God and
shunned evil.
C. Job was married and had 7 sons and 3
daughters.
D. He had the greatest wealthy among all of the
people.
1. 7000 sheep
2. 3000 camels
3. 500 yoke of oxen
4. 500 donkeys
5. a large number of servants
II. God Allows Satan
to test Job Job
1:6-22
A. Satan talks with God
1. God gives permission to test Job
2. God tells Satan that he cannot physically lay
a hand on Job
B. Bad things happen
1. Thieves come and carry of Job’s oxen and
donkeys and kill some of his servants.
2. Fire fell from the sky and burned up the
sheep and killed some more of his servants.
3. Some more thieves came and stole his camels
and killed more of his servants.
4. A great wind came and struck down the house
where his children were and they were all
killed.
III. Job Mourns
A. Job tore his robe and shaved his head.
B. Job then fell down and worshipped God.
1. Job never sinned.
2. Job never blamed God.
IV. Satan Tests Job Again. Job 2:1-10
A. Satan afflicted Job with boils or painful
sores from his head to his feet.
B. Job’s wife even wanted Job to curse or blame
God but Job would not.
C. Job never sinned in all of this.
V. Job’s Friends Job
2:11-13
A. Job’s friends did not even recognize him
(because of the sores)
B. They wept, tore their robes and put dust on
their heads – a sign of mourning.
C. They sat with Job for 7 days and 7 nights.
VI. Job Finally Speaks
Job 3-37
A. He asks why he was born
B. Job and his friends have many conversations
about who should be blamed for all
of the bad things that have happened to Job.
C. Job’s friends think God is punishing Job
VII. God Blesses
Job Job
38-42
A. God speaks words of encouragement to Job Job 38-41
B. Job acknowledges that God can do all things. Job 42:1
C. God made Job wealthy again – twice as much as
before
1. 14,000 sheep
2. 6000 camel
3. 1000 yoke of oxen
4. 1000 donkeys
D. Job had a new family with 7 sons and 3
daughters
E. Job lived 140 years
Application :
Job never
blamed God or doubted that God knew what was best for him, even during the most
trying times of his life. Job can be a
very good example for us to follow. It’s
often easy for us to feel angry at God when things aren’t going well for us or
blame God when something bad happens. We
should try to use those times to thank God for the things that he HAS done for us.
Suggested Song:
“Trust and
Obey”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Song:
“Trust and Obey”
When we walk with the Lord,
In the light of His word,
What a glory He sheds on our way.
While we do His good will,
He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.
Chorus:
Trust and Obey,
For there’s no other way,
To be happy in Jesus,
But to trust and obey.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 8 – The Call
of Abraham
Aim: To help the students understand how important
the promises were that were made to
Abraham and how God kept His promises – even many, many years later.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 11:26-12:9
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the words promise and place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was pleased with which brother’s
offering? Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
12. What did God tell Noah to do? Build an ark
13. Why?
Because he was going to destroy the earth
14. How many people were saved from the
flood? 8 – Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
their wives
15. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights
16. What kind of bird did Noah send out that
brought back an olive leaf? Dove
17. What did God place in the sky as a sign of
his promise with Noah? Rainbow
18. How many languages did Noah’s family who
lived in the land
of Shinar
Only
one
19. What did they want to build that would reach
to heaven? A tower
20. Was God happy with this? NO!
21. What did God do to stop their building the
tower? He confused their language
So
they couldn’t understand each other.
Because of this they scattered across
the earth.
22. What was the name of the tower? Babel
23. Who was Job?
A man who lived in the land
of Uz
24. Did Job ever blame God for all of the
terrible things that happened to him? no
Lesson Text:
***This
period of history takes place approximately 427 years after the flood. Abraham is a descendent of Shem, one of
Noah’s sons.
I. Abram
Genesis 11:26-30
A. The son of Terah
B. The husband of Sarai
C. The brother of Nahor and Haran
II. God Speaks to Abram Genesis 12:1-3
A. God told Abram to leave from where he was,
his country, and go to the
land that He would show him.
B. Terah, Abram, Sarai, and Lot (Abram’s nephew)
left Ur which was Abram’s home and traveled
as far as the city, Haran
1. Terah, Abram’s father, died at Haran
2. Terah was 205 years old.
C. God spoke to Abram and made him 2 promises at
this point.
1. I will make of thee a great nation.
(NATION)
God
was telling Abram that he would have as many children/grandchildren as
the
stars in the heaven and dust on
the earth.
2. Through you, all of the families of the
earth will be blessed. (SEED)
The
families would be blessed through the birth of Christ.
III. Abram, Sarai, and Lot left Haran and go forth
for the land of Canaan.
A. They took all of their possessions that they
had with them.
B. They took the people whom they had acquired
in Haran Gen 12:5
C. They arrive at the Land of Canaan
IV. God appeared to Abram and made him the 3rd
promise
A.
To your descendants, I will give this land (LAND)
B.
Abram built an altar to God to worship Him.
Application :
Do we ever
make promises that we don’t keep? There
is One who never breaks His promises.
God will never break a promise that He has made to us. We can count on that!
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 9 – Abraham
and Lot
Aim: To
teach the students the good quality of being unselfish and looking toward the needs of others instead of self.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 13:1-18
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the word famine and place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was
pleased with which brother’s offering?
Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
12. What did God tell Noah to do? Build an ark
13. Why?
Because he was going to destroy the earth
14. How many people were saved from the
flood? 8 – Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
their wives
15. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights
16. What kind of bird did Noah send out that
brought back an olive leaf? Dove
17. What did God place in the sky as a sign of
his promise with Noah? Rainbow
18. How many languages did Noah’s family who
lived in the land
of Shinar
Only
one
19. What did they want to build that would reach
to heaven? A tower
20. Was God happy with this? NO!
21. What did God do to stop their building the
tower? He confused their language
So
they couldn’t understand each other.
Because of this they scattered across
the earth.
22. What was the name of the tower? Babel
23. Who was Job?
A man who lived in the land
of Uz
24. Did Job ever blame God for all of the
terrible things that happened to him? no
25. What did God tell Abram to do? To go from the place he was living to the land that God would
show him.
26. Did Abram show a lot of faith in obeying
God? Yes
27. What 3 promises did God make to Abram? 1) land
2) nation 3) seed
Lesson Text:
***Abram has gone to Egypt because there is a famine in Canaan .
I. Abram Returned from Egypt with Sarai and Lot Genesis 13:1-11
A. He went back to Bethel
where he had pitched his tent before in the Land of Canaan
B. Abram was very rich in livestock, gold and
silver
C. Their possessions were great
D. Quarrelling began between Abram’s herdsmen
and Lot ’s herdsmen.
E. The land could not support both Abram and Lot and their herds.
II. Abram Gave Lot a Choice. Genesis 13:8-11
A. Abram did not want quarrelling among the
family
B. Abram gave Lot
his choice of land
C. Lot saw the part of the land that looked good
and chose it.
1.
was well watered
2.
the Jordan
D. The two men parted ways.
III. Home for Lot
and Abram Genesis 13:12-13
A. Lot lived close to the city of Sodom
1.
Sodom
2. Men of Sodom
B. Abram lived in Canaan
1. Abram lived in the rough part of the country.
2. There was no wicked city around
3. God was with Abram.
IV. God Blessed Abram Genesis
13:14-18 (LAND)
God told Abram to “Lift up your eyes and look
north, south, east, and west. All of the
land which you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.”
Application :
It’s not
always easy to put other’s interest and well being above our own but that is
what we must do if we want to please God.
Abram did this in that he let Lot
choose first. He is a good example for
us to follow.
Suggested Song:
“This Little Christian Light of
Mine”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
“This Little
Christian Light of Mine”
This little Christian light of mine, I’m gonna
let it shine.
This little Christian light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
This little Christian light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine,
Let it shine, let is shine, let it shine.
Verse 2: Hide it under
a bushel, NO!
I’m
gonna let it shine.
Verse 3: All around
the neighborhood,
I’m
gonna let it shine.
Verse 4: Don’t let
Satan “shhhh” it out,
I’m
gonna let it shine.
Verse 5: Go to church
and Bible study,
I’m
gonna let it shine.
Verse 6: Let it shine
till Jesus comes,
I’m
gonna let it shine.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 10 – God’s
Covenant with Abram
Aim: To
teach the students concerning the promises that God made to Abraham..
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 12:1-10 , 13
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the word descendants and covenant and
place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was
pleased with which brother’s offering?
Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
12. What did God tell Noah to do? Build an ark
13. Why?
Because he was going to destroy the earth
14. How many people were saved from the
flood? 8 – Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
their wives
15. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights
16. What kind of bird did Noah send out that
brought back an olive leaf? Dove
17. What did God place in the sky as a sign of
his promise with Noah? Rainbow
18. How many languages did Noah’s family who
lived in the land
of Shinar
Only
one
19. What did they want to build that would reach
to heaven? A tower
20. Was God happy with this? NO!
21. What did God do to stop their building the
tower? He confused their language
So
they couldn’t understand each other.
Because of this they scattered across
the earth.
22. What was the name of the tower? Babel
23. Who was Job?
A man who lived in the land
of Uz
24. Did Job ever blame God for all of the
terrible things that happened to him? no
25. What did God tell Abram to do? To go from the place he was living to the land that God would
show him.
26. Did Abram show a lot of faith in obeying
God? Yes
27. What 3 promises did God make to Abram? 1) Land 2) nation 3) seed
28. Why could Abram and Lot
not live with their cattle in the same area?
The land
wouldn’t support both of them.
29. Did Abram let Lot
choose which land he wanted first? Yes
30. Did Lot make
a wise choice? He lived near the wicked city of Sodom
Lesson Text:
***This lesson is primarily a review of
God’s promises to Abram. It is important to help the kids remember
this. The rest of the Bible story
revolves around these three promises.
I. Call of Abram
A. At age 75, God told Abram to leave his
country and go to a place where God would
show him.
B. God made 2 promises to Abram
1. Nation
2. Seed
C. Lot and Sarai traveled with Abram to Canaan .
D. There is a famine in the land of Canaan
which causes Abram, Sarai and Lot to
Leave
and go to Egypt
II. Abram, Sarai, and
Lot returned to Canaan when the Famine was Over
A. The land would not support both Abram’s and
Lot’s cattle – there was quarrelling between Abram’s and Lot ’s herdsmen.
B. Abram decided it was best for he and Lot to part ways.
C. Abram
gave Lot the choice of which land to take.
D. Lot chose the well-watered Jordan plain and set his tent near Sodom
E. Abram stayed in Canaan .
III. God Spoke to
Abram
A. God told Abram, “Look north, south, east, and
west. All of the lands you see, I will give to you and your
descendants.”
B. Abram
built an altar to God to worship God.
IV. God’s Covenant
with Abram
A. Abram spoke to God and told God that he was
childless – that he had no son and
that some other member of his household would inherit his wealth.
B. God told Abram that he would have a son to be his heir.
C. God took Abram outside and told him to look
up into the heavens and count the
stars if he could. God said his
descendants would be like that – too many
to count!
D. God told Abram that this land (Canaan ) belonged to him and his descendants.
Application :
God made
several promises to Abraham. We see
through further study how these promises come true. Has God made promises to us? What are some of them? We must trust that God will keep his
promises.
Suggested Song:
“Standing
on the Promises”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 11 – Hagar and
Ishmael
Aim: To
help the students understand the importance of patience.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 16 – 17:15
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the word patience and maid and place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was
pleased with which brother’s offering?
Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
12. What did God tell Noah to do? Build an ark
13. Why?
Because he was going to destroy the earth
14. How many people were saved from the
flood? 8 – Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
their wives
15. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights
16. What kind of bird did Noah send out that
brought back an olive leaf? Dove
17. What did God place in the sky as a sign of
his promise with Noah? Rainbow
18. How many languages did Noah’s family who
lived in the land
of Shinar
Only
one
19. What did they want to build that would reach
to heaven? A tower
20. Was God happy with this? NO!
21. What did God do to stop their building the
tower? He confused their language
So
they couldn’t understand each other.
Because of this they scattered across
the earth.
22. What was the name of the tower? Babel
23. Who was Job?
A man who lived in the land
of Uz
24. Did Job ever blame God for all of the
terrible things that happened to him? no
25. What did God tell Abram to do? To go from the place he was living to the land that God would
show him.
26. Did Abram show a lot of faith in obeying
God? Yes
27. What 3 promises did God make to Abram? 1) Land 2) nation 3) seed
28. Why could Abram and Lot
not live with their cattle in the same area?
The land
wouldn’t support both of them.
29. Did Abram let Lot
choose which land he wanted first? Yes
30. Did Lot make
a wise choice? He lived near the wicked city of Sodom
Lesson Text:
Remind
the kids that in our last lesson, God told Abram that he would have a son to
inherit his wealth.
I. Impatient Sarai (Abram’s wife) Genesis 16
A. Sarai had not given birth to any children for
Abram
B. Sarai talks to Abram
1. She said, “Since the Lord has kept me from
giving birth, I want you to go
in to Hagar, my maid.”
2. She went on to say that perhaps she would
obtain children by her maid.
3. Abram agreed and Sarai took Hagar, her maid,
and gave her to Abram.
4. Hagar became pregnant.
5. Although Sarai set this plan into action, she
was not happy when it actually happened. She began to hate Hagar.
II. Sarai Mistreated
Hagar
A. Hagar ran away from Sarai because Sarai
mistreated her.
B. An angel of the Lord found Hagar by a spring
of water in the wilderness.
C. The angel asked Hagar where she had come from
and where she was going.
D. Hagar said that she was fleeing from Sarai
but the angel told Hagar to return to
Sarai
and act as she should – submit to her.
E. The angel told Hagar 3 things:
1. You will have a son
2. His name will be called Ishmael
3. He will be a wild man.
III. Ishmael is Born
A. Hagar had a son and named him Ishmael
B. Abram was 86 years old when Ishmael was born.
IV. Abram and Sarai’s
Names Change. Genesis 17:1-15
A. When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord
appeared to Abram and Abram fell on his
face.
B. He restated the promises that He had made to
Abram – land, nation, seed.
C.
God changed Abram’s name at this point to Abraham.
D.
God told Abraham that Sarai’s name would now be Sarah .
Application :
How often
do we want something NOW? Is that being patient? God expected Sarai to wait on Him. He had already told Abram that He would give
him a son, but Sarai wasn’t willing to wait on God. Sarai was not patient and her example of this
is a bad one.
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 12 – Abraham,
Sarah, and the Promise of Isaac
Aim: To
help the students understand that God fulfills His promises.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 17:15-20 ,
18:1-15
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was
pleased with which brother’s offering?
Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
12. What did God tell Noah to do? Build an ark
13. Why?
Because he was going to destroy the earth
14. How many people were saved from the
flood? 8 – Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
their wives
15. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights
16. What kind of bird did Noah send out that
brought back an olive leaf? Dove
17. What did God place in the sky as a sign of
his promise with Noah? Rainbow
18. How many languages did Noah’s family who
lived in the land
of Shinar
Only
one
19. What did they want to build that would reach
to heaven? A tower
20. Was God happy with this? NO!
21. What did God do to stop their building the
tower? He confused their language
So
they couldn’t understand each other.
Because of this they scattered across
the earth.
22. What was the name of the tower? Babel
23. Who was Job?
A man who lived in the land
of Uz
as he had before he was tested.
24. Did Job ever blame God for all of the
terrible things that happened to him? no
25. What did God tell Abram to do? To go from the place he was living to the land that God would
show him.
26. Did Abram show a lot of faith in obeying
God? Yes
27. What 3 promises did God make to Abram? 1) Land 2) nation 3) seed
28. Why could Abram and Lot
not live with their cattle in the same area?
The land
wouldn’t support both of them.
29. Did Abram let Lot
choose which land he wanted first? Yes
30. Did Lot make
a wise choice? He lived near the wicked city of Sodom
31. What was the name of Sarai’s maid? Hagar
32. Did Sarai encourage Abram to go to Sarai to
so Abram could have a child? Yes
33. Did this make Sarai happy? No, it made her angry. She mistreated Hagar because of it and Hagar ran away.
34. How was Hagar found and sent back to
Sarai? An angel found her by a spring.
35. What was the name of the child that was born
to Hagar and Abram? Ishmael
36. What were Sarai and Abram’s names changed
to? Sarah and Abraham
Lesson Text:
***Remind the kids
that at the end of our last lesson, Sarai and Abram’s name had been changed by
God to Sarah and Abraham. After changing their names…
I. God Spoke to Sarah
A. Told her that He would bless her.
B. Told her that she would be a mother of lots
of people (nations)
II. Abraham Laughed
A. When Abraham heard what God said, he fell on
his face and laughed.
B. Abraham said to himself, “Shall of child be
born to a man who is 100
years
old? Can Sarah, who is 90 years old have
a child?”
III. God Spoke to
Abraham
A. God told Abraham, “Your wife
Sarah will bear a son and you shall call him Isaac.”
B. God told Abraham that Isaac would be born in about
a year.
C. God had promised Abraham that he would have a
son and Isaac would be that son.
IV. Abraham and Three
Visitors
A. Abraham sat at the door of his tent in the
heat of the day.
B. He looked up and saw 3 men standing in front
of him.
C. Abraham hurried from the tent door to welcome
them.
1. He asked them to stay awhile and rest while
he got water and food
for
them.
2. The visitors agreed.
D. Abraham ran back to the tent and told Sarah
to make some cakes (bread)
for
the visitors.
E. Abraham went out to the heard and selected a
fat calf and told a servant to
prepare it.
F. He took butter, milk, the bread and the meat
to the men and he stood by them
under the trees as they ate. (Abraham knew that these visitors had
been sent by God.)
V. The Visitors Speak
to Abraham
A. They ask Abraham, “Where is Sarah, your
wife”? Abraham replies, “She is in the tent.”
B. Abraham told the visitors about God telling
him that Sarah would have a son, even
though both he and Sarah were long past child-bearing years.
C. Sarah laughed to herself about that
possibility.
D. God
asked Abraham- Why did Sarah laugh? – Was anything too hard for God?
E. Sarah lied and said she did not laugh because
she was afraid, but Abraham told her
she did!
VI. The Birth of Isaac
A. God did to Sarah as He had promised.
B. Sarah became pregnant and had a son.
C. Abraham named the son, Isaac.
D. Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90.
Application :
We can
always believe what God tells us. He
will always do what He says – just like He fulfilled His promise to Abraham and
Sarah and gave them a son.
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 13 – Sodom and Gomorrah
Aim: To
help the students understand that God hates evil.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis18:16-33,
19:1-29
Memory Work: Genesis 1:1-2
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Scramble
4) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
5) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
6) Define the word righteous and angel and place on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1. In the beginning, God created what according
to our memory verse? The heavens and the
earth
2. How many days did it take for God to create
everything? 6
3. What did God do on the 7th
day? Rested
4. What did God call the greater light? The sun
5. Who was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it? Man
6. What specific command was given to Adam? Not to eat of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil
7. Who took the fruit from the tree first? Eve
8. Why were Adam and Eve driven from the
garden? Because they disobeyed God
9. What were the names of Adam and Eve’s first 2
children? Cain and Abel
10 God was
pleased with which brother’s offering?
Abel
11. What
did Cain do because of his jealousy and anger?
He killed Abel
12. What did God tell Noah to do? Build an ark
13. Why?
Because he was going to destroy the earth
14. How many people were saved from the
flood? 8 – Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
their wives
15. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights
16. What kind of bird did Noah send out that
brought back an olive leaf? Dove
17. What did God place in the sky as a sign of
his promise with Noah? Rainbow
18. How many languages did Noah’s family who
lived in the land
of Shinar
Only
one
19. What did they want to build that would reach
to heaven? A tower
20. Was God happy with this? NO!
21. What did God do to stop their building the
tower? He confused their language
So
they couldn’t understand each other.
Because of this they scattered across
the earth.
22. What was the name of the tower? Babel
23. Who was Job?
A man who lived in the land
of Uz
24. Did Job ever blame God for all of the
terrible things that happened to him? no
25. What did God tell Abram to do? To go from the place he was living to the land that God would
show him.
26. Did Abram show a lot of faith in obeying
God? Yes
27. What 3 promises did God make to Abram? 1) Land 2) nation 3) seed
28. Why could Abram and Lot
not live with their cattle in the same area?
The land
wouldn’t support both of them.
29. Did Abram let Lot
choose which land he wanted first? Yes
30. Did Lot make
a wise choice? He lived near the wicked city of Sodom
31. What was the name of Sarai’s maid? Hagar
32. Did Sarai encourage Abram to go to Sarai to
so Abram could have a child? Yes
33. Did this make Sarai happy? No, it made her angry. She mistreated Hagar because of it and Hagar ran away.
34. How was Hagar found and sent back to
Sarai? An angel found her by a spring.
35. What was the name of the child that was born
to Hagar and Abram? Ishmael
36. What were Sarai and Abram’s names changed
to? Sarah and Abraham
37. Did Sarah and Abraham have a son together as
God had said? Yes
38. What was his name? Isaac
Lesson Text:
***Review
the facts concerning the fact that Lot chose Sodom
I. Abraham Pleads for Sodom
A. God spoke to Abraham and said that He had heard that the wickedness in Sodom and Gomorrah
B. God said He would go down and see whether it
was true.
C. Abraham asked God – If there are 50 righteous
people there, will You spare it? - God said He would.
D. Abraham asked God – If there are 45 righteous
people there, will You
spare
it? - God said He would.
E. Abraham
asked God – If there are 40 – 30 – 20 – 10 righteous people there, will you spare it? God said He would spare it for only 10
righteous
people.
II. Lot is Visited by
Two Angels
A. Lot was sitting at the gate
of Sodom
B. Lot invited the angels (visitors) to his home
but they declined his offer but Lot was
persistent until they went home with him and Lot
fed them.
C. After the meal, as they were preparing for
bed, the men of Sodom
Lot’s
house and shouted to Lot to bring his visitors
(angels) out. The men of
Sodom
D. The crowd tried to attack Lot when he refused
to hand the visitors (angels) over
to them but the angels kept Lot from harm and
struck the evil men blind.
E. The visitors (angels) encouraged Lot to get his family out of the city – because they said the Lord had
sent them to destroy the city because of its wickedness.
III. Lot and his
Family Flee
A. When daylight came the next morning, the
visitors (angels) told Lot to hurry
and
take his wife and daughters out of the city before they got caught in
in
the destruction of the city.
B. Lot hesitated and the angels grabbed his hand
and the hands of his wife and daughters
and rushed them to safety outside the city.
C. Lot asked permission to go to the village
close by and stay there.
D. The angels told him that he could do that but
do not look back!
IV.
Sodom and Gomorrah are Destroyed.
A. The Lord sent fire on Sodom
and Gomorrah
B. He destroyed those cities and all of the
people that were in them and anything that was alive – plants,
animals, etc.
C.
Lot’s wife did not do as she was told – She looked back at the cities
and became a
pillar of salt because of her disobedience.
Application :
God was not
pleased with the wickedness in Sodom and Gomorrah
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
This altar was used for the bible lesson, Abraham and Isaac, and was made by one of my co-teachers, Denise Campbell. It could also be used as a visual aid in teaching the lesson, Elijah and the Prophets of Baal.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 14 – The
Sacrifice of Isaac
Aim: To help the students understand what it means
to completely trust God.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 22:1-19
Memory Work: The Twelve Sons of Jacob
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
4) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
5) Define unfamiliar words sacrifice, lad, on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1) What 3 promises did God make to Abraham? Land, nation, and seed
2) Who was Abraham’s first son? Ishmael
3) What was Ishmael’s mother? Hagar
4) Who was Abraham and Sarah’s son? Isaac
5) Name the two cities that were destroyed
because of their wickedness. Sodom and
Gomorrah
Lesson Text:
I. God Tests Abraham
A. God spoke to Abraham
1. God told Abraham to take his son, Isaac and
go to the land of
Moriah
2. God told Abraham that he would tell him which
of the mountains to offer him as a sacrifice on.
B. Abraham
obeyed God.
II. The Journey to
the Sacrifice
A. The next morning, Abraham got
up early, chopped wood for a fire for the altar,
saddled
his donkey and took with him Isaac and two servants and started on the journey.
B. On the third day of the journey, Abraham saw
the place in the distance.
III. The Arrival at
the Place of the Sacrifice
A. Abraham told his servants to stay with the
donkey and that he and Isaac
would
go and worship and return to them.
B. Abraham placed the wood for the offering on
Isaac’s shoulders while he carried
the knife and the flint for lighting the fire.
C. Abraham and Isaac went on together.
D. Isaac spoke to Abraham – “Father, we have the
wood and the flint to make the fire,
but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?”
E. Abraham responds to Isaac, “God will provide
the lamb for the burnt offering.”
IV. Abraham’s
Sacrifice of Isaac
A. When they came to the place that God had told
him, Abraham built an altar there,
bound Isaac and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
B. Abraham took the knife and lifted it up to
kill Isaac.
C. At that moment, an angel of God called to
Abraham and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
D. Abraham answered, “Here I am.”
E. The angel of God said to Abraham, “Do not lay
your hand upon the lad or do anything
to him for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold
your only son from me.”
V. Abraham Offers a Ram
Abraham noticed a ram caught by its horn in
a bush so he took the ram and
offered
it as a sacrifice instead of his son.
VI. An Angel of God Repeats Abraham’s Blessings
A. Land
B. Nation
C. Seed
Application :
Abraham
trusted God completely. He trusted that
God would provide a sacrifice and he wouldn’t have to sacrifice his son. If we trust God completely, He will take care
of us just as he did Abraham.
Suggested songs:
“Trust and
Obey”
“The Twelve
Sons of Jacob”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Visual: Altar
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 15 – Rebecca
is Chosen for Isaac
Aim: To help the students understand that God knew
what Isaac needed in a wife and provided that for him.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 24
Memory Work: The Twelve Sons of Jacob
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
4) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
5) Define unfamiliar words well on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1) What 3 promises did God make to Abraham? Land, nation, and seed
2) Who was Abraham’s first son? Ishmael
3) What was Ishmael’s mother? Hagar
4) Who was Abraham and Sarah’s son? Isaac
5) Name the two cities that were destroyed
because of their wickedness. Sodom and
Gomorrah
6) What was
Abraham told to do to test his faith in God?
Take his son and offer him
as a burnt offering to God
7) What did
God tell Abraham again after Abraham was faithful to God? God told Abraham
of the promises of the land, the nation, and the seed again.
Lesson Text:
I. The Search for a Wife for Isaac
A. Abraham told his servant to go to his
homeland to find a wife for Isaac.
B. The servant said to Abraham – What if the
woman is not willing to follow me back
here and be a wife for Isaac?
C. If that happened, the servant would be
released from finding a wife for Isaac.
II. The Servant’s
Search
A. The servant took 10 of Abraham’s camels and
loaded them with samples of the
best of everything his master owned.
B. After loading the camels, the servant went
down to the city of Nahor .
C. The servant made the camels kneel down
outside the city by the well in the evening.
D. The servant prayed that he would be
successful in finding a wife for Isaac.
Prayer-”Behold,
I stand here by the well of water and the daughters of the men of the city
come out to draw water. Let the maiden
to
whom I shall say, ‘let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’ – let
her be the one whom
thou has appointed for they servant Isaac.”
III. Rebekah at the
Well
A. As the servant was still
speaking, a beautiful young girl named Rebekah arrived
with a water jug on her shoulder.
B. She went
down to the water and filled her jar.
C. The
servant ran down to meet her and asked for a little water to drink.
D. Rebekah not only gave the servant water but
gave his camels water also!
E. When the camels finished drinking, the
servant asked Rebekah whose daughter she
was and asked if they could stay at her father’s house that night.
F. Rebekah told him that she was the daughter of
Bethuel and that they had plenty of
room for the servant and his camels.
G. The servant bowed his head and worshipped
God, knowing that God had provided.
H. Rebekah ran home to tell her folks and Laban,
her brother ran out to the spring where
the servant was still standing. He told
the servant to come and stay with
them, so the servant did.
1. The servant was given straw and food for his
camels.
2. He was also given water for the camel drivers
to wash their feet.
3. Food was set before him to eat but the
servant wanted to tell Laban why he was there.
IV. The Servant told
Laban why he was there and what he was doing for Abraham.
V. Rebekah Goes with the Servant
A. Laban and Bethuel told the servant that what
was happening from God.
B. The servant had permission to take Rebekah
back with him to be Isaac’s wife.
C. Rebekah’s mother and brother asked Rebekah if
she was willing to go with the
Servant
and Rebekah said yes.
VI. Isaac and Rebekah
Marry
A. One evening as Isaac was taking a walk in the
fields; he looked up and saw the camels
coming.
B. Rebekah covered herself with a veil when she
saw Isaac coming across the field.
C. Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent and she
became his wife, and he loved her.
Application :
God knows
our needs and will provide what we need but we must be patient and wait on
God. He does not work on our time
schedule. God knew what kind of wife
Isaac needed and God provided that for him.
We can always trust God to provide for our needs.
Suggested songs:
“The Twelve
Sons of Jacob”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 16 – The Birth
of Twins & Esau Sells his Birthright
Aim: To help the students understand that we
should be kind and share.
Scripture Reference: Genesis 25:19-34
Memory Work: The Twelve Sons of Jacob
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
4) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
5) Define unfamiliar words twin and birthright on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1) What 3 promises did God make to Abraham? Land, nation, and seed
2) Who was Abraham’s first son? Ishmael
3) What was Ishmael’s mother? Hagar
4) Who was Abraham and Sarah’s son? Isaac
5) Name the two cities that were destroyed
because of their wickedness. Sodom and
Gomorrah
6) What was
Abraham told to do to test his faith in God?
Take his son and offer him
as a burnt offering to God
7) What did
God tell Abraham again after Abraham was faithful to God? God told Abraham
of the promises of the land, the nation, and the seed again.
8) Who went
to find a wife for Isaac? Abraham’s
servant
9) Where
did the servant find Rebekah? At a well
Lesson Text:
I. The Birth of Twins
A.
When Isaac was 40 years old, he and Rebekah married.
B. Isaac asked God to help Rebekah have a child.
C. God granted Isaac’s request and twins were
born to Isaac and Rebekah when Isaac was 60 years old.
1.
The first twin born was Esau who had reddish hair all over.
2. The second twin born was Jacob.
II. Jacob and Esau
A. Esau
1.
Esau was a skillful hunter
2. Isaac’s favorite son was Esau (the scriptures
say that this was because Esau brought meat home)
B. Jacob
1.
Jacob cared for flocks and other things at home.
2. Rebekah’s favorite son
III. Esau Sells His
Birthright
A. Jacob
was making a lentil stew when Esau came in from hunting in the field.
B. Esau was
very hungry and asked Jacob for some of the stew.
C. Jacob
told Esau – “First sell me your birthright.”
D. Esau protested and told Jacob that he was so
hungry; he was at the point of death
but agreed to sell his birthright for some bread and lentil stew.
E. Esau had traded his rights as the oldest son
in the family for a bowl of stew.
Application :
It is
important for us to share what we have with others who are in need but we also
need to learn sharing on a day to day basis.
Jacob and Esau were brothers but Jacob was not kind enough to his
brother to share some food with him! How
many times are we that way with our brothers and sisters? Have we ever had a piece of candy or gum and
did not want to share it with anyone? We
should always try to never act unkind or selfish as Jacob did.
Suggested songs:
“The Twelve
Sons of Jacob”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 17 – Jacob
Obtains Esau’s Blessing
Aim: To help the students understand that lying is
wrong and is a sin.
Scripture Reference: Genesis 27
Memory Work: The Twelve Sons of Jacob
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
4) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
5) Define unfamiliar words on Word Wall. – There
are none for this lesson.
Review Questions:
1) What 3 promises did God make to
Abraham? Land, nation, and seed
2) Who was Abraham’s first son? Ishmael
3) What was Ishmael’s mother? Hagar
4) Who was Abraham and Sarah’s son? Isaac
5) Name the two cities that were destroyed
because of their wickedness. Sodom and
Gomorrah
6) What was Abraham told to do to test his faith
in God? Take his son and offer him as a
burnt offering to God
7) What did God tell Abraham again after Abraham
was faithful to God? God told Abraham of the
promises of the land, the nation, and the seed again.
8) Who went to find a wife for Isaac? Abraham’s servant
9) Where did the servant find Rebekah? At a well
10) Isaac
and Rebekah had twins. What were their
names? Jacob and Esau
11) Which
twin sold his birthright? Esau
12) What
did he sell it for? Some bread and
lentil stew
Lesson Text:
*** Isaac is now old and cannot
see well. He calls his oldest son, Esau
in to him and talks with him. Isaac told Esau that he was getting old and did
not know how much longer he would live.
Isaac then told Esau to take his weapons and go out into the field, hunt
for him and prepare Isaac some food.
Esau was to bring the food to Isaac and then Isaac would bless Esau. Rebekah
was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau. The lesson picks up when Esau has gone
to hunt game for Isaac and Rebekah is talking with Jacob, the son that she
loved.
I. Rebekah Schemes with
Jacob
A. Rebekah told Jacob that she
had heard Isaac speak to Esau. He said to Esau:
1. Bring me meat and prepare it for me so I can
eat.
2. I will then bless you before I die.
B. She then
told Jacob to go to the flock and get 2 baby goats and she would
prepare
them for Isaac and he could take them to Isaac so that Isaac
would
bless him instead of Esau.
C. Jacob said to Rebekah – “But Esau is a hairy
man and I am a smooth man. If my
father feels me, he’ll think I’m trying to deceive him and he will curse me.”
D. Rebekah
told Jacob to do as she said.
1.
Jacob brought the baby goats to Rebekah and she prepared them for Isaac.
2.
Rebekah then took Esau’s best clothes and put them on Jacob.
3.
She then took the skins of the goats and put them on Jacob’s hands and his neck so he would feel hairy like
Esau.
E. Rebekah then gave the food to Jacob.
II. Jacob Steal’s
Esau’s Blessing
A. Jacob went in to his father,
Isaac and Isaac asked Jacob who he was.
B. Jacob
tells Isaac, “I am Esau your first-born. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my
game, that you may bless me.”
C. Isaac
said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are
really my son Esau or not.”
D. Jacob
went near it Isaac and Isaac felt him.
Isaac said – “The voice is Jacob’s voice,
but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
E. Isaac
did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like Esau’s hands. Isaac then asked – “Are you really my son Esau?” and Jacob
answered, “I am.”
F. Isaac told Jacob to bring him
the food so that he could eat it so Jacob did along
with
some wine.
G. Isaac
then told Jacob to come near and kiss him. Jacob came near and kissed Isaac and Isaac said
that Jacob’s clothes smelled like Esau.
H. Isaac then blessed Esau.
III. Esau Learns of
the Trick
A. When Isaac had finished
blessing Jacob (and Jacob had just left Isaac’s presence),
Esau came in from hunting.
B. Esau
prepared the meat from his hunting and brought it to his father.
C. Isaac
said to Esau, “Who are you?”
D. Esau
answered, “ I am your son, your first-born, Esau.”
E. Isaac was shocked and trembling and said,
“Who was it who hunted game and brought it in to me? And I ate of all of it before you came in; and
I blessed him?”
F. Isaac
told Esau that his brother had tricked him and had stolen his blessing.
G. Esau was
very upset and told his father that Jacob had not only stolen his blessing from
his father but he had also stolen his birthright.
IV. Esau Hates Jacob for
What He Did
Esau was so angry that Jacob had
taken his blessing that he said, “Soon my father will be gone and then I will
kill Jacob.” Rebekah heard of this and told Jacob to leave and go stay with his
Uncle Laban in Haran
until Esau forgets what he did.
Application :
Jacob was
not honest with his father. He told him
a lie and that was wrong. He led his
father to believe that he was really Esau!
Jacob was not letting his light shine. Do you think Isaac had a hard
time believing Jacob after that? We
should always tell the truth.
Suggested songs:
“The Twelve
Sons of Jacob”
“This
Little Christian Light of Mine”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 18 – Jacob’s
Dream
Aim: To help the students understand the even
though Jacob was in a dream, he realized that he was in the presence of God.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 28:10 – 29:14
Memory Work: The Twelve Sons of Jacob
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
4) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
5) Define unfamiliar word- well
and shepherdess on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1) What 3 promises did God make to
Abraham? Land, nation, and seed
2) Who was Abraham’s first son? Ishmael
3) What was Ishmael’s mother? Hagar
4) Who was Abraham and Sarah’s son? Isaac
5) Name the two cities that were destroyed
because of their wickedness. Sodom and
Gomorrah
6) What was Abraham told to do to test his faith
in God? Take his son and offer him as a
burnt offering to God
7) What did God tell Abraham again after Abraham
was faithful to God? God told Abraham of the
promises of the land, the nation, and the seed again.
8) Who went to find a wife for Isaac? Abraham’s servant
9) Where did the servant find Rebekah? At a well
10) Isaac
and Rebekah had twins. What were their
names? Jacob and Esau
11) Which
twin sold his birthright? Esau
12) What
did he sell it for? Some bread and
lentil stew
13) Which
of the twins was the oldest? Esau
14) Which
one of the twins received the blessing of Isaac? Jacob
15)
Why? Because Rebekah and Jacob tricked
Isaac into thinking that Jacob was really
Esau
Lesson Text:
***This lesson picks
up where Jacob had fled from Beer-sheba
where he had been living because of his fear that Esau would kill him (after
stealing Esau’s blessing). Jacob fled to Haran to stay with his Uncle Laban,
Rebekah’s brother. Before leaving, Isaac
told Jacob to take him a wife from one of the daughters of Laban. (This would
have been one of Jacob’s cousins.)
I. Jacob’s Dream at Bethel
A. Jacob left Beersheba
and went toward Haran .
At night, he stopped to camp and
found
a rock to use as a pillow while he slept.
B. While sleeping, Jacob dreamed that there was
a ladder that reached from earth to
heaven. On that ladder, he saw angels
going up and down it.
C. God stood at the top of the ladder and said,
“I am the Lord God of Abraham your
father and the God of Isaac. He then restated
the 3 promises that he had
made to Abraham.
1. the land on
which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants. (LAND)
2.
Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth (NATION)
3.
By you and your descendants, all of the families of the earth will be
blessed (SEED)
D. God told Jacob that He would be with Him
and protect him.
II. Jacob Awakes From
His Dream
A. When Jacob awoke from his
dream, he was afraid and said – “Surely the Lord is in this place…This is the house of God
and the gate of heaven.”
B. Jacob
got up and took the stone that he had used for a pillow and set it on the ground and poured oil
on top of it and named the place Bethel
which means
“House of God”.
III. Jacob’s Continues
on His Journey
A. Jacob
traveled on.
B. He saw
in the distance 3 flocks of sheep lying beside a well in a field.
C. Jacob
went over to the shepherd and asked them where they lived and they responded Haran .
D. Jacob
then asked them if they knew Laban and they told him yes and that Laban was doing
well.
E. While he was talking with the shepherds,
Rachel, Laban’s daughter, came with Laban’s
sheep to give them some water. (She was a shepherdess.)
F. Jacob
went over to the well and rolled away the stone and watered his Uncle Laban’s sheep.
G. Jacob
then kissed Rachel and started crying.
He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s
son and she ran and told her father.
IV. Jacob Stays with
Laban
When Laban heard of Jacob’s
arrival, he rushed out to meet him and brought him home. Jacob then told Laban his story and Jacob
stayed with Laban for a month.
Application :
Just as we
saw in our lesson, Jacob was in God’s presence. We too must realize that we are always in
God’s presence. God can see us
everywhere we go.
Suggested songs:
“The Twelve
Sons of Jacob”
“Anywhere
with Jesus”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 19 – Jacob
Works for Rachel
Aim: To help the students understand that marriage
is a special relationship planned by God.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 29:15 - 30:1-24,
35:16-18
Memory Work: The Twelve Sons of Jacob
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
4) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
5) Define unfamiliar word- marriage- on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1) What 3 promises did God make to
Abraham? Land, nation, and seed
2) Who was Abraham’s first son? Ishmael
3) What was Ishmael’s mother? Hagar
4) Who was Abraham and Sarah’s son? Isaac
5) Name the two cities that were destroyed
because of their wickedness. Sodom and
Gomorrah
6) What was Abraham told to do to test his faith
in God? Take his son and offer him as a
burnt offering to God
7) What did God tell Abraham again after Abraham
was faithful to God? God told Abraham of the
promises of the land, the nation, and the seed again.
8) Who went to find a wife for Isaac? Abraham’s servant
9) Where did the servant find Rebekah? At a well
10) Isaac
and Rebekah had twins. What were their
names? Jacob and Esau
11) Which
twin sold his birthright? Esau
12) What
did he sell it for? Some bread and
lentil stew
13) Which
of the twins was the oldest? Esau
14) Which
one of the twins received the blessing of Isaac? Jacob
15)
Why? Because Rebekah and Jacob tricked
Isaac into thinking that Jacob was really
Esau
16) Esau
became so angry with Jacob that he wanted to kill Jacob so Jacob fled to where? Haran
to stay with his uncle Laban, Rebekah’s brother
17) On the
way to Haran ,
Jacob stopped for the night and while he was sleeping, he had a dream. What was his dream? His dream was that there was a ladder reaching
all of the way to heaven and angels were going up and down the ladder.
18) In his dream, who was at the top of the
ladder? God
19) What did God say? He restated the 3 promises that He had made
to Abraham – land,
nation, and seed
Lesson Text:
***At the close of our last lesson,
Jacob had reached his Uncle Laban’s home and Laban welcomed Jacob into his
home. Jacob began working for Laban.
I. Laban’s Daughters
A. Leah
1. Was the older of the two
2. Eyes were weak
B.
Rachel
1. Was the younger of the two
2. Was beautiful and lovely
II. Jacob Works for Laban
A. After Jacob had
been living with and working for his Uncle Laban about a month, Laban asked him what he
should pay him for his work.
B.
Jacob told Laban that he would work for him for 7 years if he could marry Rachel after the 7 years were
over.
C.
Laban agreed to Jacob’s proposal.
D. Jacob worked for Laban for 7 years but it
only seemed like a few days because of the love that he had for
Rachel.
III. The Marriage
A.
At the end of the 7 years, Jacob asked Laban to give him his wife.
B. Laban gathered all of the men together for a
celebration.
C.
Afterwards, at night, Laban took his daughter into Jacob.
D. In the morning, Jacob realized that it was
not Rachel that Laban had given to him but it was Leah!
E.
Jacob went to Laban and said, “What is this that you have done to me? I worked 7 years for Rachel and you
did not give her to me!”
F. Laban told Jacob that it was not normal in
his country for the younger
daughter to marry before the older daughter married.
G. Laban
told Jacob that if he would agree to work for him for another 7 years, he
would give him Rachel too.
H. So,
Jacob agreed to work for Laban for 7 more years and Laban gave Rachel to
Jacob.
IV. Jacob’s Children
A. By Leah
1.
Ruben
2.
Simeon
3.
Levi
4.
Judah
5.
Issachar
6.
Zebulun
7.
Dinah
B. By
Bilhah, Rachel’s maid
1.
Dan
2.
Naphtali
C. By
Zilpah, Leah’s maid
1.
Gad
2.
Asher
D. By
Rachel
1.
Joseph
2.
Benjamin
Application :
In our
Bible lesson today, we learned that Jacob loved Rachel so much that he was
willing to work 14 years for his Uncle Laban just so he could have her. The Bible teaches us that husbands must love
their wives. Marriage is a very special
relationship that God has planned for man and woman. It is a relationship where you are willing to
love the other person more than you love yourself. It means that you only want what is best for
them. When we follow God’s plan for
marriage, we have a godly, happy family.
Suggested songs:
“The Twelve
Sons of Jacob”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
Creation, the Flood and the Patriarchs
K-First Grade Study of the Old Testament
Lesson 20- Joseph’s
Dreams
Aim: To help the students that sometimes God used
dreams to show his people what was going to occur at a future time.
Scripture
Reference: Genesis 37:1-24
Memory Work: The Twelve Sons of Jacob
Pre-Class
Activities:
1) Memory Work
2) Question Cards found in drawer unit
3) Memory Verse Fill in the blanks
4) Place magnetized Books of the Old Testament
in the correct order.
5) Define unfamiliar word- sheaves- on Word Wall.
Review Questions:
1) What 3 promises did God make to
Abraham? Land, nation, and seed
2) Who was Abraham’s first son? Ishmael
3) What was Ishmael’s mother? Hagar
4) Who was Abraham and Sarah’s son? Isaac
5) Name the two cities that were destroyed
because of their wickedness. Sodom and
Gomorrah
6) What was Abraham told to do to test his faith
in God? Take his son and offer him as a
burnt offering to God
7) What did God tell Abraham again after Abraham
was faithful to God? God told Abraham of the
promises of the land, the nation, and the seed again.
8) Who went to find a wife for Isaac? Abraham’s servant
9) Where did the servant find Rebekah? At a well
10) Isaac
and Rebekah had twins. What were their
names? Jacob and Esau
11) Which
twin sold his birthright? Esau
12) What
did he sell it for? Some bread and
lentil stew
13) Which
of the twins was the oldest? Esau
14) Which
one of the twins received the blessing of Isaac? Jacob
15)
Why? Because Rebekah and Jacob tricked
Isaac into thinking that Jacob was really
Esau
16) Esau
became so angry with Jacob that he wanted to kill Jacob so Jacob fled to where? Haran
to stay with his uncle Laban, Rebekah’s brother
17) On the
way to Haran ,
Jacob stopped for the night and while he was sleeping, he had a dream. What was his dream? His dream was that there was a ladder reaching
all of the way to heaven and angels were going up and down the ladder.
18) In his dream, who was at the top of the
ladder? God
19) What did God say? He restated the 3 promises that He had made
to Abraham – land,
nation, and seed
20) How long did Jacob have to work for
Rachel? 14 years
21) Who was
Rachel’s father? Laban
22) Laban tricked Jacob. Who did he give to Jacob first to marry? Leah
Lesson Text:
Jacob decides to return home and prepares
to meet Esau. He sent messengers to his
brother Esau to let him know that he had been living with his Uncle Laban and
that he now owned cattle and many servants. The messengers returned with the news that
Esau was on the way to meet Jacob with an army of 400 men. Jacob was afraid and asked God to protect him
and his wives and children. He divided his caravan into 2 groups hoping that if
Esau attacked one of the groups, the other could escape.
In the distance, Jacob saw Esau
coming with his 400 men. As he
approached Esau, he bowed 7 times before him, then Esau ran to meet him and
kissed him, and they wept.
Jacob offered gift to Esau but Esau
refused them at first saying he had plenty.
Jacob continued to insist and Esau accepted them. They went their
separate ways and
Jacob arrived safely
in the land of Canaan Canaan , Jacob came to
Isaac his father and was able to see him before Isaac died. Rachel had also died during the birth of
Benjamin. At this point, both of Jacob’s parents have died.
Our lesson picks up where Joseph,
Jacob’s favorite son, is 17 years old and living in the land of Canaan
I. Joseph’s Brother’s Hatred toward Him
Joseph -
1. Is currently 17 years old.
2. Is the most loved son of Jacob.
3. Received the coat of many colors from Jacob,
his father.
4.
His job was to take care of his father’s
sheep along with his brothers.
5. Was hated by his brothers because Jacob loved
Joseph more than the rest.
II. Joseph’s Dreams
A. First dream: He and his brothers were binding sheaves in
the field. Joseph’s sheave stood up and his brother’s sheaves all gather around it
and bowed down before
it.
B. Joseph’s
brothers said to Joseph, “So, you want to be our king, do you?” and they hated him for
his dream and for what he said.
C. Second
dream: The sun, the moon and 11 stars were bowing down to Joseph.
D. Joseph
told Jacob, his father, as well as his brothers his second dream.
E. Jacob
rebuked Joseph and his brothers were very angry at him and jealous of him.
III. The Plot to Kill
Joseph
A. Joseph’s brothers went to
Shechem to graze their father’s sheep there.
B. A few
days later, Jacob told Joseph to go over to Shechem to see how his brothers and
the sheep were getting along and then come back and tell him.
C. Joseph traveled to Shechem but his brothers
were not there. He saw a man who told him that
his brothers had gone to another place, Dothan ,
so Joseph went to
Dothan and
found his brothers there.
D. The
brothers saw Joseph coming in a distance and they began talking about how they could
kill him because they were so angry with him!
They
called Joseph the “dreamer” and said, “Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we will say that
a wild beast has eaten
him.”
E. When Reuben heard what they were saying, he
said to them, “Let’s not kill him.
…cast him into the pit but lay no hand upon him. (Reuben was planning
to rescue Joseph at a later time and return him to Jacob.)
F. When
Joseph got there; they pulled off his coat of many colors and threw him
into
the empty, waterless pit.
Suggested songs:
“The Twelve
Sons of Jacob”
Other Ways to
Reinforce the Lesson:
1) Reinforce the lesson with question sheets
provided in the Student Handout folder.
2) Reinforce the lesson by allowing the children
to place their lesson sheets in their
class notebooks.
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