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Ezekiel 5 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: A Few Kept Safe

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.

PreschoolKept Safe

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

KindergartenGod Keeps Us

ROBE → picture 3SAFE → picture 1KEEP → picture 4FEW → picture 2

Grade 1A Few Hairs in the Robe

Ezekiel cut his hair. → picture 4He weighed the hair. → picture 3He tied a few in his robe. → picture 1Jerusalem was in the middle of the nations. → picture 5The people did not obey God. → picture 2

Order:

1. You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe2. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her3. Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by4. I, Yahweh, have spoken it

Grade 2Tied in the Robe

  1. What did Ezekiel cut? His hair (circle)
  2. How many piles did he make? Three (circle)
  3. Where did he tie a few hairs? In his robe (circle)
  4. Why did he keep a few hairs? To show God would keep some people safe
  5. What city was the picture about? Jerusalem (circle)
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Grade 3A Small Number Kept

  1. What did Ezekiel use to weigh the hair? Balances
  2. Where did Ezekiel put a small number of hairs? In the folds of his robe
  3. Where had God set Jerusalem? In the middle of the nations
  4. What did Jerusalem not do? Walk in God's statutes or keep His ordinances
1: You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe2: I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her3: Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by4: I, Yahweh, have spoken it
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Grade 4This Is Jerusalem

  1. What did Ezekiel use to shave his hair? A sharp blade like a barber's razor
  2. What did the hairs bound in the robe show? Even in judgment God would keep a remnant
  3. What had Jerusalem done to God's sanctuary? Defiled it
  4. What would the people know when it happened? That Yahweh had spoken

Word bank: 1. balances; 2. Jerusalem; 3. robe; 4. God; 5. nations

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

Grade 5In the Middle of the Nations

  1. Why was shaving the head a fitting sign? It was a sign of mourning and shame, so the sign was a lament
  2. What does the small number of hairs in the robe picture? God preserving a remnant
  3. Why was Jerusalem's rebellion so serious? She had God's law and house and was set in the middle of the nations to show them what God is like, but she rebelled more than the nations
  4. What principle about privilege does this chapter show? Greater privilege brings greater responsibility
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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