Jeremiah 16 · For teachers and parents
Answer Key: From the Land of the North
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 My Refuge
Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.
KindergartenGod Sees
Grade 1God Brings Them Home
Order:
Grade 2God Will Bring Them Home
- What does God see? Everything people do (circle)
- Is anything hidden from God? No, nothing is hidden from him
- What would come? Hard days (circle)
- What did God promise? To bring his people home again
- What did Jeremiah call God? His safe place (circle)
Grade 3A New Way Home
- What was Jeremiah not to do? Marry or have children in that place
- What was his life a sign of? Hard days were coming
- Where are God's eyes? On all their ways
- Where would God bring his people from? The land of the north
- What did Jeremiah call God? His strength and his refuge
Grade 4Greater Than the Exodus
- Why was Jeremiah told not to go to feasts or funerals? To show that normal life in Jerusalem would soon be interrupted
- What does God say about their ways? His eyes are on all their ways, and they are not hidden
- What new rescue would be greater than the exodus? Bringing Israel back from the land of the north
- Who did Jeremiah see coming to God? Nations from the ends of the earth
Word bank: 1. fathers; 2. God; 3. land; 4. refuge
Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.
Grade 5My Strength and My Stronghold
- What had God taken away from the people? His peace, even loving kindness and tender mercies
- What did the fishermen and hunters picture? A judgment no one could escape
- How would the return from the north compare to the exodus? It would be so great that people would speak of it instead of Egypt
- What would the nations confess? Their fathers had inherited nothing but lies
Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.
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