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Joshua 3 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Crossing the Jordan

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 Stops the River

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

KindergartenDry Ground

ARK → picture 4RIVER → picture 3DRY → picture 1PEOPLE → picture 2

Grade 1God Makes a Path

The priests carried the ark. → picture 5The people followed the ark. → picture 1The river was very full. → picture 4God stopped the water. → picture 2All the people crossed on dry ground. → picture 3

Order:

1. Sanctify yourselves2. Take up the ark of the covenant3. the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water4. all Israel crossed over on dry ground

Grade 2A Path in the River

  1. What river did they come to? The Jordan River (circle)
  2. What did Joshua say God would do tomorrow? Wonders (circle)
  3. Who carried the ark? The priests (circle)
  4. What happened when the priests put their feet in the water? The water stopped. (circle)
  5. How did the people cross? On dry ground (circle)
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Grade 3Wonders at the Jordan

  1. How long did Israel camp by the Jordan? Three days
  2. Why were the people to follow the ark? So they would know the way to go
  3. What did Joshua tell the people to do? Sanctify themselves
  4. What happened to the water from upstream? It stood in one heap far away.
  5. Where did the priests stand? On dry ground in the middle of the Jordan
1: Sanctify yourselves2: Take up the ark of the covenant3: the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water4: all Israel crossed over on dry ground
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Grade 4The Living God Goes Ahead

  1. How far behind the ark did the people walk? About two thousand cubits
  2. What would the miracle prove? That the living God was among them
  3. Near what city did the waters stand in a heap? Adam, the city beside Zarethan
  4. Which New Testament verse remembers crossing water as on dry land by faith? Hebrews 11:29

Word bank: 1. ark; 2. God; 3. wonders; 4. Jordan; 5. priests

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

Grade 5Stepping Into the River

  1. Why did the people need to follow the ark? They had not passed this way before.
  2. By what would the people know the living God was among them? The crossing of the Jordan
  3. Why does the harvest timing make the miracle clearer? The Jordan overflows all its banks during harvest.
  4. When did the waters stop? When the feet of the priests dipped into the edge of the water
  5. Which New Testament verse says by faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land? Hebrews 11:29
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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