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Jeremiah 8 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Is There No Balm in Gilead?

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 Can Heal

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

KindergartenBirds Know

BIRD → picture 2TIME → picture 4BALM → picture 1CARE → picture 3

Grade 1A Healing Balm

The stork knows her times. → picture 2People should turn back to God. → picture 4Balm helps hurts get better. → picture 5Jeremiah cared for his people. → picture 1The harvest time had passed. → picture 3

Order:

1. Does one turn away, and not return2. The harvest is past3. The summer has ended, and we are not saved4. Is there no balm in Gilead

Grade 2Birds Know Their Times

  1. What birds did God talk about? The stork and the swallow
  2. What do the birds know? When to fly away and come back
  3. What did God's people not know? His ways (circle)
  4. How did Jeremiah feel? Sad (circle)
  5. What did Jeremiah want? For them to be healed
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Grade 3No Balm in Gilead?

  1. What happens when people fall? They get up again
  2. What does the stork know? Her appointed times
  3. What did the people not know? Yahweh's law
  4. What was Gilead known for? Balm, a medicine for hurts
  5. What did Jeremiah long for? For his people to be healed
1: Does one turn away, and not return2: The harvest is past3: The summer has ended, and we are not saved4: Is there no balm in Gilead
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Grade 4A People Who Did Not Return

  1. What common-sense question did God ask? When people fall, don't they rise up again?
  2. What did the birds show? They keep the seasons God built into them
  3. What did the people not know? Yahweh's law
  4. What healing did the people need? Turning back to God

Word bank: 1. God; 2. stork; 3. balm

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

Grade 5The Harvest Is Past

  1. What natural thing did the people fail to do? Rise up again and return after falling and turning away
  2. What did the birds teach? Even birds know their appointed times, but the people did not know Yahweh's law
  3. What had the scribes done to the law? Their false pen had turned it into a lie
  4. What does the balm in Gilead question express? Grief that healing was near yet the people had not received it
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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