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Isaiah 10 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: The Proud Ax and the Remnant

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.

PreschoolComing Back to God

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

KindergartenCome Back

RETURN → picture 4GOD → picture 3HOME → picture 2TRUST → picture 1

Grade 1God Is Mighty

Do not rob the poor. → picture 3God helps the needy. → picture 5An ax cannot brag. → picture 2Some will return. → picture 4Lean on God. → picture 1

Order:

1. Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees2. What will you do in the day of visitation3. It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel4. A remnant will return

Grade 2Lean on God

  1. Who did the unfair laws hurt? Poor people, widows, and children with no father
  2. What did the proud king say? He was strong all by himself
  3. What cannot brag against the one who uses it? An ax (circle)
  4. Who would return to God? Some of His people (circle)
  5. Who would they lean on? God (circle)
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Grade 3A Remnant Will Return

  1. What did the unfair leaders take? The rights of the poor, and things from widows and children with no father
  2. What did God use the king of Assyria like? A rod to correct His people
  3. What did the proud king say? By the strength of my hand I have done it
  4. Who would the remnant lean on? Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel
  5. What would be lifted from their shoulders? Their heavy yoke
1: Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees2: What will you do in the day of visitation3: It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel4: A remnant will return
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Grade 4The Ax and the One Who Chops

  1. Who were the victims of the unrighteous decrees? The needy, the poor, widows, and the fatherless
  2. What did God call Assyria? The rod of my anger
  3. What picture did God use to answer the king's boasting? An ax bragging against him who chops with it
  4. Who would the remnant lean on in truth? Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel

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

Grade 5A Remnant Will Return

  1. What refrain returns in verse 4? For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  2. What did the Assyrian king compare his conquests to? Gathering eggs that are abandoned from a nest
  3. What title links the remnant's God in 10:21 to the child of 9:6? The mighty God
  4. Where does Paul quote Isaiah 10:22-23? Romans 9:27-28
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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