Object lessons

I'm the first to admit that I'm a sucker for extreme object lessons.

I'll put a ballon in a person’s mouth and shoot a dart at it. I'll serve audiences purple spit soup, like I ate in the Amazon with the Yuana tribe. 

Here in our little Christian school, I have been teaching about the prophet Elisha. When we arrived at 2 Kings 6:25, I saw the perfect opportunity for another object lesson.

The Syrian king Ben-hadad had Samaria surrounded and starving to death. Food was scarce. And talk about inflation; Costco was raising their prices on a daily basis! 

And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. 

Unfortunately, I did not have a donkey head available for my lesson, and concluded that dove’s dung would be a bit too small to make an impact, so I got a contribution from one of our canines. I think the students will always remember the story of the siege of Samaria! 

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