Ezekiel 9 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: A Mark for Those Who Care

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.

PreschoolA Special Mark

personheartcitypeople

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

KindergartenGod Knows His People

MARK → picture 3LINEN → picture 1DONE → picture 4CARE → picture 2

Grade 1The Man in Linen

A man wore linen clothes. → picture 4He had a writer's inkhorn. → picture 3He set a mark on foreheads. → picture 1The marked people were sad about sin. → picture 5Ezekiel cried out to God. → picture 2

Grade 2The Mark

What did the man wear? Linen clothes (circle)
What was by his side? A case for writing (circle)
Who got a mark? People who were sad about the wrong things
Who did God keep safe? The people with the mark
What did Ezekiel do? He prayed to God for the people

Grade 3Those Who Sigh and Cry

What did the man clothed in linen have by his side? A writer's inkhorn
Where did the glory of God go? To the threshold of the house
Who received a mark on their foreheads? The men who sigh and cry over the abominations
What did Ezekiel do when he saw what was happening? He fell on his face and cried out to God

1: One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side2: The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side3: Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it4: I have done as you have commanded me

Grade 4A Mark on the Forehead

What did the man clothed in linen carry? A writer's inkhorn
Who received the mark? Those who sigh and cry over all the abominations
Where did judgment begin? At the sanctuary
What did the man in linen report at the end? I have done as you have commanded me

Word bank: 1. Linen; 2. house; 3. mark; 4. God; 5. city

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

Grade 5Those Who Sigh and Cry

What did God do before any judgment fell? He had the faithful marked on their foreheads
How were the marked people different from the idol worshipers in chapter 8? They grieved over the abominations instead of joining them
Why do you think judgment began at the sanctuary? That is where the leaders had sinned most, in God's own house
What two New Testament verses connect to the mark? 2 Timothy 2:19 and Revelation 7:3

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