Kings, Temples and Second Chances: A Kids Bible Story from 2 Chronicles About Solomon's Temple, Chances, Turning Back to God. KJV Verses Included. Ages 3-8

Solomon could have asked God for anything he wanted.He asked to know the right thing to do. Then he spent seven years building the most beautiful house his country had ever seen, out of white stone his father had stacked up for him and never lived to use. On the day it opened, a bright cloud came down and filled the doorway, and God made a promise that had to last for the next four hundred years.It needed to. What follows is king after king after king, and most of them forget. The doors get shut. The walls crack. But somebody always opens them again: a king who clears out the clutter and says let us go and look for God again, a king who sends the singers out in front before anyone knows how the day will end, a boy king who mends a whole building out of the smallest coins in the country, and a young king who listens to a dusty scroll read aloud and stands up and changes everything he can. The book ends in the worst place the story ever goes, and then its very last sentence opens a door.Inside this book: - A young king who asked for wisdom instead of gold- Carved cedar, counted threads and gold leaf laid on by hand- Singers walking out in front, before anybody knew how the day would end- A plain wooden box by the door and the smallest coins mending a wall- Shut doors pushed wide open and the lamps lit again one by one- A King James Version verse to learn together, with the reference- Three questions, words to know, a short prayer, and a Read It Yourself page for ages 8 to 12Written for ages 3 to 8 to be read aloud, with a back page of King James Version passages for older readers of 8 to 12 to look up on their own.Book 14 of 66 in KJV Bible Adventures for Kids - one picture book for every book of the Bible, in order, from Genesis to Revelation.From Guy Charlie Books, a small, veteran-owned publisher.