God Chooses David: Samuel Anoints Jesse’s Youngest Son — Grades 1–3 Lesson

Free grades 1–3 Sunday school lesson on 1 Samuel 16:1–13. This reviewed eight-page PDF includes two pages of passage-specific volunteer background, a complete teaching script, a timed 50-minute plan, six printable sequence cards, a Bible study sheet with answers, and a family page.

Children follow Samuel’s grief over Saul, fear of Saul, visit to Bethlehem, mistaken first impression of Eliab, Jesse’s seven presented sons, David’s summons from the sheep, and his anointing as the LORD’s Spirit comes upon him. The memory text is a correctly labeled KJV excerpt of 1 Samuel 16:7. The guide explains that David did not take the throne that day, the oil was not magic, and people cannot read a classmate’s heart. Later promises about David’s house and Jesus are clearly identified as later Scripture.