Sunday School - 3rd Grade

Reading Portion: Exodus 17

Lesson:

1. After leaving Sin, the Israelites traveled through many different places. They camped at a place called Rephidim.

2. The main problem with Rephidim was that there was no water for them to drink. So they complained to Moses.

3. Moses talked with God and God told him to take the staff that he had struck the river Nile with a long time ago and head to Horeb with some of the elders of the Israelites. There God will meet them by a rock. And Moses had to strike this rock.

4. Moses did as God commanded and water gushed out of this rock.

5. Later on, a nearby nation called the Amalekites came and fought with the Israelites. Moses (with Aaron and Har) stood on a hill with the staff of God in his hand while Joshua got some Israelite men and fought the Amalekites.

6. As long as Moses held his hands up, the Israelites were winning. But when Moses’ arms started tiring, the Amalekites started winning.

7. So when Moses’ arms were tiring, Aaron and Har got a stone for Moses to sit on. Both of them held Moses’ arms up – one on the left side and the other on the right. It was like this until sunset.

8. This event was recorded so that Joshua and the future generation. Moses built an altar and called it: Jehovah Nissi, which means: The Lord is my Banner.


Moral: The Lord cares for His people and gives them victory in all their battles.

Memory Verse: Psalm 18:29
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.