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Psalms 4 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Peace at Bedtime

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.

PreschoolSleep in Peace

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

KindergartenPeace

NIGHT → picture 2GLAD → picture 4PRAY → picture 1LIGHT → picture 3

Grade 1God Hears Me

David asked God to answer him. → picture 2God sets apart the godly. → picture 4God put gladness in his heart. → picture 5Let the light of Your face shine. → picture 1In peace he lies down to sleep. → picture 3

Order:

1. Yahweh will hear when I call to him2. Search your own heart on your bed3. Let the light of your face shine on us4. In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep

Grade 2Peace at Night

  1. What does David pray first? Answer me when I call.
  2. Who does David tell people to trust? Yahweh (circle)
  3. What did God put in David's heart? Gladness (circle)
  4. How does David lie down? In peace (circle)
  5. Who makes David live in safety? Yahweh (circle)
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Grade 3In Peace I Will Sleep

  1. What instruments does the title name? Stringed instruments
  2. What should people do on their beds? Search their own hearts and be still
  3. What do many say? Who will show us any good?
  4. What did God put in David's heart? Gladness, more than when grain and new wine are increased
  5. Who alone makes David live in safety? Yahweh
1: Yahweh will hear when I call to him2: Search your own heart on your bed3: Let the light of your face shine on us4: In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep

Grade 4An Evening Prayer

  1. What does David ask God for at the start? Relief from his distress and mercy
  2. What advice does David give for bedtime? Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.
  3. What does David pray when many ask who will show them any good? That the light of God's face would shine on them
  4. Why can David sleep in peace? Yahweh alone makes him live in safety.

Word bank: 1. answer; 2. mercy; 3. heart; 4. trust; 5. good

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

Grade 5Gladness More Than Harvest

  1. What does the phrase God of my righteousness suggest? God stands behind what is right.
  2. What four things does David urge people to do? Stand in awe and not sin, search their hearts and be still, offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put their trust in Yahweh
  3. Which New Testament verse echoes Psalm 4:4? Ephesians 4:26
  4. What is God's gladness compared to? The joy of a rich harvest of grain and new wine
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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