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Isaiah 36 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: What Confidence Is This?

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.

PreschoolDon't Answer Him

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

KindergartenQuiet on the Wall

QUIET → picture 2WALL → picture 4TRUST → picture 1KING → picture 3

Grade 1Trust in Yahweh

We trust in Yahweh. → picture 2They remained silent. → picture 4The people on the wall. → picture 5King Hezekiah. → picture 1Don't answer him. → picture 3

Order:

1. Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah2. The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem3. We trust in Yahweh our God4. But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply

Grade 2A Mean Messenger

  1. Who sent a man to Jerusalem? The king of Assyria (circle)
  2. What did the man shout? Mean words (circle)
  3. What did he say about God? God could not save the people
  4. What did the people on the wall do? They did not answer (circle)
  5. Who told them to stay quiet? King Hezekiah (circle)
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Grade 3They Remained Silent

  1. Who did the king of Assyria send? His officer Rabshakeh
  2. What did Rabshakeh ask? What confidence is this in which you trust?
  3. What did he tell the people not to let Hezekiah do? Make them trust in Yahweh
  4. What did the people do? They remained silent
  5. What was the king's commandment? Don't answer him.
1: Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah2: The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem3: We trust in Yahweh our God4: But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply
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Grade 4Rabshakeh at the Wall

  1. Which other book also tells this history? 2 Kings 18-20
  2. Where did Rabshakeh stand? By the conduit of the upper pool, where Isaiah once met Ahaz
  3. Why did Rabshakeh shout in Hebrew? So the people on the wall would understand him
  4. What did the people do? They remained silent, because the king commanded, Don't answer him.

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

Grade 5What Confidence Is This?

  1. What does Isaiah 36-39 do in the structure of the book? It forms a historical bridge from Assyria to Babylon, preparing for the second half.
  2. Why is the location by the conduit of the upper pool significant? It is where Ahaz had refused to trust God (Isaiah 7:3).
  3. How did Rabshakeh mix truth and lies? He correctly saw Egypt was unreliable but falsely claimed Yahweh sent him and that the removed high places offended God.
  4. What was Rabshakeh's fatal mistake? Ranking the living God among idols
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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