Objects: Stones and firewood

Boys and girls, have you ever camped in a tent and cooked over a wood fire? (Listen for responses and varieties of experiences that may be shared.) How did you arrange the stones and the wood so that the food would cook? (You or a helper might demonstrate simply how this might be arranged.)

King David was told by God and by Gad - I'm not teasing: it was by an angel and by a man named Gad - that he should build an altar to the Lord and offer sacrifices to God upon that altar. It was probably much bigger than any campfire arrangement that we make. As king, David might have ju…