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2 Kings 23 · Preschool

Keep the Passover

Name Date

Color the people gathered to keep the Passover. They obeyed God's book.

Can you find these in the picture? Circle each one!

Bible Verse

The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

2 Kings 23:21 (WEB)

Prayer

Thank You, God, for making me!

Take It Home

Read the verse aloud. Say: Josiah told the people to obey God's book. We can obey God's Word too.

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2 Kings 23 · Kindergarten

Obey God's Word

Name Date

Trace the Words

Trace each word with your pencil.

BOOK
OBEY
IDOL
HEART
The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

2 Kings 23:21 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each word to its picture.

BOOK
IDOL
LAMB
HEART

Mini Maze

Help find the way through the maze.

Draw It

Draw people keeping the Passover.

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your covenant. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Whose book did Josiah read?
  • What did Josiah take away?

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2 Kings 23 · Grade 1

Josiah Obeys

Name Date

Trace the Words

Trace the words and the verse.

BOOK
IDOLS
PASSOVER
HEART
The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

2 Kings 23:21 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each sentence to its picture.

Josiah read God's book.
He took away idols.
He burned the idols.
They kept the Passover.
He loved God with all his heart.

With All His Heart

Write the number 1 to 4 in each circle to show the right order.

And cast its dust on the graves of the common people

And his statutes with all his heart and all his soul

The king went up to Yahweh’s house

As it is written in this book of the covenant

Draw people keeping the Passover.

Memory Verse

The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

2 Kings 23:21 (WEB)

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your covenant. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What feast did they keep?
  • What can you do to show God you love Him most?
  • What would you like to say to God about this chapter?

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2 Kings 23 · Grade 2

Josiah Cleans Up

Name Date

Read the Story

King Josiah called all the people together. He read God's book to them. They made a promise to obey God with all their hearts.

Josiah took every idol out of God's house. He burned them. He broke down the places where people worshiped false gods.

Then the people kept the Passover. There had not been one like it in a long time. No king loved God with all his heart like Josiah.

Memory Verse

“There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.”

2 Kings 23:25 (WEB)

Show What You Know

Circle the right answer, or write it on the lines.

  1. What did Josiah read to the people?

    The PassoverGod's bookWith all his heart

  2. What did they promise?

  3. What did Josiah take out of God's house?

    With all his heartEvery idolThe Passover

  4. What feast did they keep?

    God's bookWith all his heartThe Passover

  5. How did Josiah love God?

    Every idolThe PassoverWith all his heart

Word Search

Find and circle each word. Words go across and down.

FCYBKBOOKPMOIEPGPHRAIVDTSVAHKSGEOHRHGETSHNLENELACOTASLDBURUVFNKCRLATEEOTVJOSIAHRD
  • COVENANT
  • PASSOVER
  • JOSIAH
  • BETHEL
  • IDOLS
  • HEART
  • MIGHT
  • BOOK

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your covenant. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • How can you clear out things that keep you from loving God?
  • How can you obey God's Word?

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2 Kings 23 · Grade 3

With All His Heart

Name Date

Read the Story

Josiah gathered all the leaders and people, small and great. He read the book of the covenant to them. Standing by the pillar, he made a covenant to follow the Lord with all his heart and soul. All the people joined in the covenant.

Josiah had everything made for Baal and Asherah taken out of the temple and burned. He broke down the high places from one end of Judah to the other. He went to Bethel and tore down the altar Jeroboam made. A man of God had said this would happen long before. Josiah left that man's grave alone.

Josiah told the people to keep the Passover as written in the book. No Passover like it had been kept since the days of the judges. No king before or after turned to the Lord like Josiah. Still, the Lord's anger against Judah because of Manasseh did not turn away. Josiah died at Megiddo in a battle with Pharaoh Neco of Egypt.

Memory Verse

“There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.”

2 Kings 23:25 (WEB)

Answer the Questions

  1. Where did Josiah stand to make the covenant?

  2. What did Josiah tear down at Bethel?

  3. Whose grave did Josiah leave alone?

  4. Since when had no Passover like it been kept?

  5. Where did Josiah die?

With All His Heart

Write what happened in each box.

1
2
3
4

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your covenant. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What did the people promise?
  • How can you put away things that are not pleasing to God?

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2 Kings 23 · Grade 4

A Covenant Renewed

Name Date

Read and Think

The king gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem and went up to the Lord's house with all the people, small and great. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant found in the temple. Standing by the pillar, he made a covenant to walk after the Lord, keeping His commandments with all his heart and soul. All the people stood to the covenant.

Josiah removed from the temple the vessels made for Baal, Asherah, and the army of the sky and burned them outside Jerusalem. He removed the idolatrous priests and defiled Topheth, where children had been made to pass through the fire. He tore down the altars Manasseh had built in the temple courts. At Bethel, he broke down Jeroboam's altar and high place, fulfilling the word of the man of God from Judah (1 Kings 13:2). He spared that prophet's tomb.

The king commanded all the people to keep the Passover as written in the book of the covenant. Surely no such Passover had been kept since the judges. Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, soul, and might, according to all the law of Moses. Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn from His great wrath because of Manasseh. Pharaoh Neco killed Josiah at Megiddo. Egypt then set Jehoiakim on the throne and demanded tribute.

Show What You Know

  1. Where did the people stand to the covenant?

  2. What was Topheth?

  3. Whose word did Josiah fulfill at Bethel?

  4. Whom did Egypt set on the throne?

Word Bank Fill-In

Use the word bank to fill in each blank.

PassoverJosiahbookheartcovenant
  1. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the found in the temple.
  2. Standing by the pillar, he made a covenant to walk after the Lord, keeping His commandments with all his and soul.
  3. removed from the temple the vessels made for Baal, Asherah, and the army of the sky and burned them outside Jerusalem.
  4. The king commanded all the people to keep the Passover as written in the of the covenant.
  5. Surely no such had been kept since the judges.

Think About It

  1. Josiah turned to the Lord with all his heart, soul, and might. What would wholehearted devotion look like in your life this week?

  2. Josiah's reforms could not undo all the consequences of past sin. Why should this make us take sin seriously?

Memory Verse

“There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.”

2 Kings 23:25 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your covenant. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • How can you read God's Word with your family or church?
  • Who had foretold Josiah's name long before?

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2 Kings 23 · Grade 5

The Greatest Reform

Name Date

Read and Think

Josiah's reform began with the Word. Before he destroyed a single idol, he read the book of the covenant aloud to the whole nation and led them in renewing their commitment. True reform starts with hearing God's Word and responding in obedience.

The cleansing was thorough: the temple, Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, and even Bethel in the old northern kingdom. There, Josiah fulfilled a prophecy given about three hundred years earlier, when an unnamed man of God foretold that a king named Josiah would defile Jeroboam's altar (1 Kings 13:2). God's word does not fail, no matter how long it takes. The Passover that followed was the greatest since the judges.

Kings gives Josiah its highest praise: no king turned to the Lord with all his heart, soul, and might as he did, the very words of Deuteronomy 6:5. Yet the Lord's wrath because of Manasseh remained, and Josiah fell at Megiddo. Even the best king could not save his people from sin's judgment. In the New Testament, Jesus calls loving the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind the greatest commandment (Matthew 22:37-38).

Show What You Know

  1. With what did Josiah's reform begin?

  2. About how long before had the man of God foretold Josiah?

  3. Which verse do the words of Josiah's praise echo?

  4. What does Jesus call the greatest commandment in Matthew 22:37-38 in the New Testament?

Crossword

52431

Across

  1. As it is written in this ____ of the covenant.
  2. And all the people agreed to the ____.

Down

  1. This ____ was kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
  2. But in the eighteenth year of King ____.
  3. And carried their ashes to ____.

Think About It

  1. Josiah began with God's Word before making changes. How can God's Word guide the changes you need to make?

  2. Even Josiah could not save Judah from judgment. In the New Testament, how does Jesus provide what Josiah could not?

Memory Verse

“There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.”

2 Kings 23:25 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your covenant. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • How can you keep doing right even when past wrongs still hurt?
  • How can you obey God wholeheartedly even when results are not what you hoped?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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