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Ezekiel 22 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Someone to Stand in the Gap

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.

PreschoolStand in the Gap

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

KindergartenStand Up for Right

WALL → picture 4GAP → picture 3STAND → picture 2PRAY → picture 1

Grade 1Who Will Stand?

God cares for the widow. → picture 3The people did not keep the Sabbath. → picture 5God refines like silver. → picture 2The leaders acted like wolves. → picture 4God looked for someone to stand in the gap. → picture 1

Order:

1. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it2. Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me3. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully4. I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one

Grade 2A Gap in the Wall

  1. Who did the people not care for? Widows and children with no dads
  2. What day did they not keep? God's rest day (circle)
  3. What did God look for? Someone to help (circle)
  4. Where would that person stand? In the gap in the wall
  5. What does God want us to stand up for? What is right (circle)
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Grade 3I Found No One

  1. Who did the people wrong? The stranger, the fatherless, and the widow
  2. What did they not keep? God's Sabbaths
  3. What is dross? The waste left when silver is cleaned in a fire
  4. What did God look for? A man to build up the wall and stand in the gap
1: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it2: Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me3: Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully4: I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one
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Grade 4Stand in the Gap

  1. Which three groups of needy people were wronged? The foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow
  2. What is dross? The waste removed when silver is refined
  3. How had the priests failed? They made no difference between holy and common
  4. What did God find when he looked for someone to stand in the gap? No one

Word bank: 1. God; 2. dross; 3. silver; 4. gather; 5. holy

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

Grade 5A Man in the Gap

  1. What did God say was at the root of all Jerusalem's sins? They had forgotten him
  2. What does the refiner's furnace image show? Judgment would expose what was left of Israel's faithfulness
  3. Which four groups are named in the final oracle? Prophets, priests, princes, and the people of the land
  4. Which New Testament verse names the one mediator between God and men? 1 Timothy 2:5
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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