1 Chronicles 9 · Grade 5
An Office of Trust
Read and Think
The genealogies end where the Chronicler's first readers lived: in Jerusalem after the return from exile. Verse 1 sums up the past in one line: Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience. Then verses 2-34 list who came back and settled, from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, to the priests and Levites.
The gatekeepers receive special attention. They numbered two hundred twelve, and David and Samuel the seer had ordained them in their office of trust. Four chief gatekeepers were over the rooms and the treasuries. They stayed around God's house through the night and opened it morning by morning.
Other Levites had duties that sound ordinary: counting the vessels of service in and out, mixing the spices, baking in pans, and preparing the show bread every Sabbath. The singers were free from other service because they worked day and night. Every task, great or small, was part of worship. In the New Testament, Jesus taught that whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much (Luke 16:10).
Show What You Know
What one line sums up the past in verse 1?
How many gatekeepers were there?
Who ordained the gatekeepers?
Why were the singers free from other service?
What did Jesus teach in Luke 16:10?
Crossword
Across
- Heads of fathers’ households of the ____
- And their ____ (Shallum was the chief)
Down
- The ruler of God’s ____
- Were over the work of the ____
- These are the ____
Think About It
The Levites counted cups and baked bread as part of worship. How can ordinary tasks in your week become worship?
The gatekeepers opened God's house morning by morning. What faithful habit could you start each morning?
Memory Verse
“All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.”
1 Chronicles 9:22 (WEB)
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Prayer
Dear God, thank You for people who serve You. Help me . Amen.
Take It Home
For families: talk about these together.
- What ordinary task can you do as worship this week?
- How can you be faithful in little things?
- What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?
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