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Solomon Builds God's Temple

December 13th

 
Symbol: Temple
Scripture: 1 Kings 5:5; 1 Kings 6

Soloman builds God's temple
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So I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to my father David, “Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.” …

Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, “Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, obey my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my promise with you, which I made to your father David. I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

So Solomon built the house, and finished it. 

 

Day 13th: A Living Temple

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Family Reflection

 

Individual Reflection

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

David the Shepherd-King

December 12th


Symbol: Sheep/shepherd’s crook
Scripture: 2 Samuel 5:1-5

David the shepherd-king
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The Lord said to [David]: “It is you who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you who shall be ruler over Israel.” So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. 

 

Day 12: A Shepherd-King

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Family Reflection

 

Individual Reflection

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

God Chooses David to be King

December 11th


Symbol: Crown
Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:1-15

God chooses David to be King
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The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” …

Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, and Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen any of these.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep.” … He sent and brought [David] in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. The Lord said, “Rise and anoint him; for this is the one.” Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him.

 

Day 11: An Underdog King

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

Ruth and Boaz

December 10th


Symbol: Grain
Scripture: Ruth 2:1-4:12

Ruth and Boaz
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Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be well with you. Now here is our kinsman Boaz, with whose young women you have been working. See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor. Now wash and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. When he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then, go and uncover his feet and lie down; and he will tell you what to do.” [Ruth] said to her, “All that you tell me I will do.”

 

Day 10: A loving Rescuer

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

Rahab

December 9th


Symbol: Red rope
Scripture: Joshua 2:1-21

Rahab
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The king of Jericho sent orders to Rahab, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house.” But the woman took the two men and hid them. …

She came up to them on the roof and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land … The Lord your God is indeed God in heaven above and on earth below. Now then, since I have dealt kindly with you, swear to me by the Lord that you in turn will deal kindly with my family.” … The men said to her, “Our life for yours! If you do not tell this business of ours, then we will deal kindly and faithfully with you when the Lord gives us the land. … 

“Tie this crimson cord in the window. … If a hand is laid upon any who are with you in the house, we shall bear the responsibility for their death.” … She tied the crimson cord in the window.

 

Day 9: A Red Rope

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

The 10 Commandments

December 8th


Symbol: Tablets
Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:1-22

10 commandments
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“Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall learn them and observe them diligently. The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. Not with our ancestors did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the fire.”

 

Day 8: 10 Loving Rules

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

Joseph

December 7th


Symbol: Joseph’s coat of many colors
Scripture: Genesis 37:1-36

Joseph
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Now [Jacob] loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long robe with sleeves. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him. … So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with sleeves that he wore; and they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

 

Day 7: A Special Son

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

The God's Promise to Abraham

December 6th


Symbol: Tent and camel
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-7

The promised land
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[God] brought [Abraham] outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness.
 

Day 6: A Starry Sky

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Family Reflection

 

Individual Reflection

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

The Promised Land

December 5th


Symbol: Tent and camel
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-7

The promised land
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Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

 

Day 5: The Promised Land

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

Noah's Ark

December 4th


Symbol: Noah’s Ark
Scripture: Genesis 6:11-14; 7:17-8:3; 9:8-13

Noah's Ark
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The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters. The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered; the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings; everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
 

Day 4: A Fresh Start

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

The Fall

December 3rd


Symbol: Snake and apple
Scripture: Genesis 3

the fall
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So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. …

Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

 

Day 3: God's Garden

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

Creation of Humans

December 2nd


Symbol: Globe/Adam and Eve
Scripture: Genesis 1:26-31

creation of humans
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Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

 So God created humankind in his image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

 

Day 2: A Family Resemblance

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

The Jesse Tree

December 1st

 
Symbol: Stump with branch
Scripture: Isaiah 11:1-2

1-Jesse-Tree-color-web
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A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse,
    and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him,
    the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the spirit of counsel and might,
    the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

 

Day 1: A Little Branch

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Family Reflection

 

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(N.B. The full Jesse Tree is 28 days long. This link will take you to the entry which aligns with the reading for the shorter, 'advent-calendar' version - please don't worry if the date in the title doesn't match!) 
 

Jesse Tree Advent Calendar December 2025

Read the stories of God's People as we count down to Christmas
(To find out more about the history of the Jesse Tree, and to download tokens for each day that you can decorate your own tree with, please click here) 
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