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Psalms 47 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Clap Your Hands, All You Nations

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.

PreschoolClap for God!

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

KindergartenSing Praises

CROWN → picture 4HORN → picture 3PEOPLE → picture 1SUN → picture 2

Grade 1God Is King

Clap your hands! → picture 5God is a great King. → picture 1He went up with a trumpet. → picture 4Sing praises to our King! → picture 2God sits on his holy throne. → picture 3

Order:

1. Oh clap your hands, all you nations2. God has gone up with a shout3. Sing praises to our King4. God sits on his holy throne

Grade 2Sing Praises to Our King

  1. Who should clap their hands? All you nations (circle)
  2. What is God over all the earth? A great King (circle)
  3. What sound was played? A trumpet (circle)
  4. What should we do for God? Sing praises (circle)
  5. Where does God sit? On his holy throne (circle)
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Grade 3King of All the Earth

  1. How should the nations shout to God? With the voice of triumph
  2. What is Yahweh Most High? Awesome
  3. With what sound has Yahweh gone up? The sound of a trumpet
  4. Who is the King of all the earth? God
  5. What does God reign over? The nations
1: Oh clap your hands, all you nations2: God has gone up with a shout3: Sing praises to our King4: God sits on his holy throne
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Grade 4Sing Praises with Understanding

  1. Who does Psalm 47 call to praise God? All nations, not only Israel
  2. What does verse 6 tell us to do again and again? Sing praises
  3. What does Sing praises with understanding mean? Praise should come from minds that know who God is.
  4. In the New Testament, what will every tongue confess? That Jesus Christ is Lord (Philippians 2:11)

Word bank: 1. King; 2. clap; 3. Shout; 4. trumpet; 5. Sing

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

Grade 5The Great King over All the Earth

  1. What picture does verse 5 give? A royal procession, like a king climbing to his throne
  2. In the New Testament, which event do many Christians connect with this psalm? Jesus being taken up into heaven (Acts 1:9)
  3. Who gathers as the people of the God of Abraham? The princes of the peoples
  4. To whom do the shields of the earth belong? To God
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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