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Hosea 11 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Cords of Love

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 Loves Me

Childheartdovebird

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

KindergartenCords of Love

CHILD → picture 4LOVE → picture 3DOVE → picture 1HOME → picture 2

Grade 1God Teaches Us to Walk

God loved Israel like a child. → picture 5God taught them to walk. → picture 1God's heart was full of love. → picture 4They would come like doves. → picture 2God would bring them home. → picture 3

Order:

1. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.2. Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.3. My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.4. I will not come in wrath.

Grade 2Ties of Love

  1. How did God love Israel? Like a parent loves a child
  2. What did God teach them? To walk (circle)
  3. Could God give them up? No (circle)
  4. How would they come back? Like birds flying home (circle)
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Grade 3How Can I Give You Up?

  1. Where did God call His son out of? Egypt
  2. What did God draw them with? Cords of a man, with ties of love
  3. What did God ask Ephraim? How can I give you up?
  4. What would God do for them at the end? Settle them in their houses
1: When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.2: Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.3: My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.4: I will not come in wrath.
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Grade 4My Compassion Is Aroused

  1. What didn't Israel know? That God healed them
  2. What did God bend down to do? Feed him
  3. Why would Assyria rule over them? They refused to repent.
  4. What is aroused in God? His compassion
  5. In the New Testament, who does Matthew say the verse points to? Jesus

Word bank: 1. child; 2. walk; 3. love; 4. God; 5. heart

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

Grade 5I Am God, and Not Man

  1. How did Israel's story begin? With rescue out of Egypt
  2. What did God draw them with? Cords of a man, with ties of love
  3. What would fall on their cities? The sword
  4. Why will God not execute the fierceness of His anger? For I am God, and not man
  5. In the New Testament, what does Matthew quote? Out of Egypt I called my son.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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