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Jeremiah 2 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: The Spring of Living Water

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 Gives Good Water

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

KindergartenLiving Water

WATER → picture 4LOVE → picture 3WELL → picture 2GOOD → picture 1

Grade 1God Is the Spring

God is like a spring of living water. → picture 3The people dug broken cisterns. → picture 5God planted them like a good vine. → picture 2Hear God's word. → picture 4God remembered their love. → picture 1

Order:

1. I remember for you the kindness of your youth2. Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase3. I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness4. I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed

Grade 2A Spring and a Broken Tank

  1. What did God remember? When his people loved him
  2. Where did they follow him? In the wilderness (circle)
  3. What is God like? A spring of living water
  4. What did the people dig? Tanks that leaked (circle)
  5. Who can give what we need? Only God (circle)
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Grade 3Two Wrong Things

  1. What did God remember about his people? The kindness of their youth
  2. Where did God bring them? Into a good land full of fruit
  3. What did even the priests not ask? Where God was
  4. What is a cistern? A hole that holds water
  5. What was wrong with their cisterns? They were broken and could not hold water
1: I remember for you the kindness of your youth2: Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase3: I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness4: I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed
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Grade 4Broken Cisterns

  1. How did God describe his people's early love? Like a bride who followed him through the wilderness
  2. What did God point out about other nations? No nation changes its gods, yet his people traded their glory
  3. What were the two evils? They forsook God, the spring of living waters, and cut out broken cisterns
  4. What would the people do when trouble came? Cry to God to save them

Word bank: 1. God; 2. land; 3. vine

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

Grade 5Two Evils

  1. How does the chapter open? With God remembering the kindness of Israel's youth and their love as a bride
  2. What did God say no other nation had done? Changed its gods, even though they were not gods
  3. Why is a spring better than a cistern in a dry land? A spring gives running living water, while a cracked cistern holds stale water or none
  4. What did the people claim even after turning away? That they were innocent
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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