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Jeremiah 2 · Grade 3

Two Wrong Things

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God sent Jeremiah to speak to Jerusalem. God remembered the kindness of their youth. Long ago they loved him like a bride. They followed him in the wilderness.

God brought them into a good land full of fruit. But the people forgot him. They went after worthless things. Even the priests did not ask where God was.

God said his people did two wrong things. They left him, the spring of living waters. Then they dug their own cisterns. A cistern is a hole that holds water. But theirs were broken and could not hold water.

Memory Verse

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13 (WEB)

Answer the Questions

  1. What did God remember about his people?

  2. Where did God bring them?

  3. What did even the priests not ask?

  4. What is a cistern?

  5. What was wrong with their cisterns?

Living Water

Write what happened in each box.

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Word Search

Find each word. Words go across, down, and diagonally.

HPLLIVINGYHLOYUEGKWWRWATERSCBHRVVVCNSPRINGFIPWBUDVINECRCISTERNSYFHLHFFOANLANDMTOI
  • CISTERNS
  • SPRING
  • WATERS
  • LIVING
  • VINE
  • LAND

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for being my living water. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why is God like living water?
  • Why did the priests fail?

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