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2 Chronicles 28 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Kindness to Captives

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolKind to Others

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenKind

FOOD → picture 2PEOPLE → picture 4HOME → picture 1KIND → picture 3

Grade 1Sent Home

Ahaz did wrong. → picture 2People were taken away. → picture 4A prophet said, Send them home. → picture 5Men gave them food. → picture 1They went home safe. → picture 3

Order:

1. Then they returned to Samaria2. At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him3. Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him4. For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him

Grade 2Sent Home with Kindness

  1. What kind of king was Ahaz? A bad king (circle)
  2. Where were many people taken? To Israel (circle)
  3. Who spoke up? A prophet named Oded (circle)
  4. What did they give the people? Clothes, shoes, food, and water
  5. How did the tired ones ride? On donkeys (circle)
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Grade 3Oded Speaks Up

  1. How old was Ahaz when he began to reign? Twenty
  2. Where did Israel carry the people? To Samaria
  3. Who met the army? Oded, a prophet of Yahweh
  4. What did Oded tell them to do? To send back the captives
  5. Where did the leaders bring the captives? To Jericho, the city of palm trees
1: Then they returned to Samaria2: At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him3: Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him4: For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him

Grade 4Mercy from an Unexpected Place

  1. Who did Yahweh give Ahaz into the hand of? Syria and Israel
  2. What did Oded ask the army? Israel also had sins against Yahweh their God.
  3. How many leaders of Ephraim agreed? Four
  4. How were the feeble carried? On donkeys
  5. What did Ahaz shut? The doors of Yahweh's house

Word bank: 1. Yahweh; 2. Israel; 3. Judah; 4. carried; 5. Ahaz

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Clothed, Fed, and Carried Home

  1. Whom did Ahaz seek in distress? Assyria, not God
  2. What did Oded tell the army? God had used them to judge Judah, but they had sins of their own.
  3. Why did the leaders refuse to bring the captives in? They feared adding to Israel's guilt.
  4. Where were the captives brought? To Jericho
  5. What parable does Luke 10:33-34 tell? In the New Testament, a Samaritan who cared for a wounded man

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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