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Jeremiah 4 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Break Up Your Fallow Ground

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.

PreschoolA Clean Heart

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

KindergartenA Soft Heart

HEART → picture 2WASH → picture 4SEED → picture 1PLANT → picture 3

Grade 1Wash Your Heart

God told Jerusalem to wash its heart. → picture 2Do not sow among thorns. → picture 4Jeremiah heard a trumpet. → picture 5Trouble came like clouds. → picture 1God would not make a full end. → picture 3

Order:

1. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him2. Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns3. Blow the trumpet in the land4. They don’t know me

Grade 2Soft Ground

  1. What did God tell his people to do? Come back to him (circle)
  2. What must happen to hard ground? It must be broken up
  3. How did God want their hearts? Soft like good ground (circle)
  4. How did Jeremiah feel? Very sad for his people
  5. Would God give up all the way? No, God would not give up all the way
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Grade 3Wash Your Heart

  1. What would happen if the people returned? The nations would be blessed
  2. What is fallow ground? Hard land that has not been plowed
  3. Why not sow among thorns? Seeds cannot grow well there
  4. What did God tell Jerusalem to wash? Its heart
  5. What did God say he would not do? Make a full end
1: The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him2: Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns3: Blow the trumpet in the land4: They don’t know me
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Grade 4Hearts Like Hard Ground

  1. What would happen if Israel returned in truth? The nations would bless themselves in God
  2. What does breaking up fallow ground picture? Softening hard, weedy hearts so God's word can grow
  3. How did the enemy come in Jeremiah's warning? Like clouds, with chariots like a whirlwind and horses swifter than eagles
  4. What hope did God still give? He would not make a full end

Word bank: 1. Jerusalem; 2. thorns; 3. wash; 4. heart; 5. good

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

Grade 5I Will Not Make a Full End

  1. How was Israel's faithfulness meant to affect the nations? The nations would bless themselves in God
  2. What does circumcising the heart picture? Inner devotion, not only an outward sign
  3. How does Jeremiah's vision echo Genesis 1? The earth is waste and void and the heavens have no light, like creation reversed
  4. What limit did God place on the judgment? He would not make a full end
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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