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Ezekiel 4 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: A Picture on a Brick

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.

PreschoolEzekiel Draws a City

citypersonbreadpeople

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

KindergartenA Picture Message

TILE → picture 2CITY → picture 4BREAD → picture 1SIGN → picture 3

Grade 1Ezekiel Acts Out a Message

He drew a city on a tile. → picture 2The city was Jerusalem. → picture 4Ezekiel lay on his side. → picture 5He ate bread by weight. → picture 1He drank water by measure. → picture 3

Order:

1. You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem2. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel3. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you4. Make bread of it

Grade 2A Sign for Israel

  1. What did Ezekiel draw on? A tile (circle)
  2. What city did he draw? Jerusalem (circle)
  3. What did Ezekiel lie on? His side (circle)
  4. What did he eat each day? A little bread (circle)
  5. What did the sign show? Hard days were coming to the city
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Grade 3Ezekiel Acts It Out

  1. What did Ezekiel use as a wall? An iron pan
  2. How many days did he lie on his right side? Forty days
  3. What did each day stand for? A year
  4. What did the measured bread and water show? That bread and water would run low in Jerusalem
1: You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem2: This shall be a sign to the house of Israel3: I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you4: Make bread of it
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Grade 4A Sign to the House of Israel

  1. Why did Ezekiel set an iron pan between himself and the city? As a wall of iron, a sign to the house of Israel
  2. What did the three hundred ninety days and forty days stand for? Years of iniquity for Israel and Judah, each day for a year
  3. Name three grains or foods in Ezekiel's bread. Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, spelt
  4. How did God answer when Ezekiel objected? He let him use cow's dung instead

Word bank: 1. God; 2. tile; 3. city; 4. house; 5. bread

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

Grade 5Prophecy You Could See

  1. Why might God have told Ezekiel to act out the message? So the captives could see the message even if they would not listen; it was a sign to the house of Israel
  2. What did Ezekiel's measured bread and water picture? Jerusalem, where people would eat bread by weight and with fearfulness
  3. How did God respond to Ezekiel's honest protest? He listened and allowed cow's dung instead, but the warning stayed the same
  4. What New Testament verse says Jesus taught in parables? Matthew 13:34
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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