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Haggai 1 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Build God's House

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.

PreschoolGod Is with Me

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

KindergartenLet's Build

WOOD → picture 3BUILD → picture 1HOUSE → picture 4WITH → picture 2

Grade 1Consider Your Ways

The people lived in fine houses. → picture 4God's house lay waste. → picture 3Bring wood from the mountain. → picture 1The people obeyed. → picture 5God said, I am with you. → picture 2

Order:

1. Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste2. Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house3. They came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God

Grade 2Build God's House

  1. Who did God's word come by? Haggai the prophet (circle)
  2. What was broken? God's house (circle)
  3. What did the people build for themselves? Nice homes (circle)
  4. What did God say to get? Wood (circle)
  5. What did God say to the people? I am with you (circle)
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Grade 3God Says, I Am with You

  1. What did the people say about building God's house? The time has not yet come.
  2. Where were the people living? In paneled houses
  3. What did God say to consider? Your ways
  4. What should they bring from the mountain? Wood
  5. What did God stir up? Their spirits
1: Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste2: Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house3: They came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God
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Grade 4Consider Your Ways

  1. What excuse did the people give? The time hasn't yet come for Yahweh's house to be built.
  2. What did God tell them to consider twice? Your ways
  3. What picture shows their wages being wasted? A bag with holes
  4. What did Yahweh do after they obeyed? He said I am with you and stirred up their spirits.

Word bank: 1. God; 2. house; 3. consider; 4. mountain; 5. people

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

Grade 5A Bag with Holes

  1. What was the people's excuse for not building? The time hasn't yet come.
  2. What does verse 9 give as the reason for their poor harvests? God's house lay waste while each was busy with his own house.
  3. What did God promise once the people obeyed? I am with you.
  4. How long after the first message did the work begin? Just over three weeks, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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