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Isaiah 23 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Proud Tyre

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 Plans

seacitypeople

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

KindergartenShips at Sea

SEA → picture 4PROUD → picture 3PLAN → picture 1SHIP → picture 2

Grade 1God's Plan

Ships on the sea. → picture 5Tyre was rich. → picture 1Tyre was proud. → picture 4God planned it. → picture 2Food for God's people. → picture 3

Order:

1. Howl, you ships of Tarshish!2. Be ashamed, Sidon3. Yahweh of Armies has planned it4. Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh

Grade 2A Rich City

  1. Where was Tyre? By the sea (circle)
  2. What sailed far away? Its ships (circle)
  3. What were its traders like? Princes (circle)
  4. What did God plan? To humble Tyre's pride (circle)
  5. What would its money do later? Feed and clothe God's people
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Grade 3Who Has Planned This?

  1. What was Tyre called? The market of nations
  2. What were its merchants? Princes
  3. Who planned this against Tyre? Yahweh of Armies
  4. How long would Tyre be forgotten? Seventy years
  5. What would its money be? Holiness to Yahweh
1: Howl, you ships of Tarshish!2: Be ashamed, Sidon3: Yahweh of Armies has planned it4: Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh
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Grade 4The Market of Nations

  1. What was Tyre? A wealthy Phoenician port
  2. Who planned the fall of Tyre, and why? Yahweh of Armies, to stain the pride of all glory
  3. How long would Tyre be forgotten? Seventy years
  4. What would happen to Tyre's wealth afterward? It would be holiness to Yahweh, feeding and clothing those who dwell before Yahweh.

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

Grade 5Holiness to Yahweh

  1. What did King Hiram of Tyre supply for Solomon? Cedar for the temple (1 Kings 5)
  2. What is God's purpose in Tyre's fall, according to verse 9? To stain the pride of all glory and bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth
  3. How would Tyre's wealth be transformed? It would be holiness to Yahweh, not hoarded, but used to feed and clothe those who dwell before Yahweh.
  4. Which New Testament passage pictures the glory of the nations brought into the holy city? Revelation 21:24-26

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

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