2 Chronicles 35 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Josiah's Passover

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.

PreschoolReady to Serve

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

KindergartenServe

LAMB → picture 4FEAST → picture 3SING → picture 1TEMPLE → picture 2

Grade 1A Big Feast

Josiah had a feast. → picture 5Priests served God. → picture 1He gave lambs. → picture 4The singers sang. → picture 2Everyone was sad when he died. → picture 3

Order:

1. Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions2. They did the same with the cattle3. There was no Passover like that kept in Israel4. This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah

Grade 2The Best Passover

What feast did Josiah have? A Passover feast (circle)
What did Josiah tell the priests? Serve God! (circle)
What did Josiah give? Lambs from his own sheep
Who sang? The singers (circle)
How did everyone feel when Josiah died? Very sad (circle)

Grade 3Encouraged to Serve

What did Josiah encourage the priests in? The service of Yahweh's house
How many lambs and goats did Josiah give? Thirty thousand
Why did the gatekeepers not leave their gates? The Levites made ready for them.
Since when had there been no Passover like it? Since the days of Samuel the prophet
Who mourned for Josiah? All Judah and Jeremiah

1: Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions2: They did the same with the cattle3: There was no Passover like that kept in Israel4: This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah

Grade 4A Passover Like No Other

In what year did Josiah keep the Passover? The eighteenth year of his reign
Why did the Levites no longer carry the ark? It was put in Solomon's house.
Who were the singers? The sons of Asaph
Where did Neco march? To Carchemish
Who lamented for Josiah? Jeremiah

Word bank: 1. Josiah; 2. priests; 3. Israel; 4. Levites; 5. Passover

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

Grade 5Worship in Order

What did leadership mean here? Both order and encouragement
Why did Josiah give so many animals? So that the people could eat
What did Josiah do before the battle? He disguised himself.
Whose words did Josiah not listen to? The words of Neco from the mouth of God
What does Paul write in 1 Corinthians 5:7? In the New Testament, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed in our place.

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