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Psalms 48 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Great Is Yahweh in the City of Our God

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 Is Great

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

KindergartenGod's City

CITY → picture 2TOWER → picture 4HILL → picture 1TEMPLE → picture 3

Grade 1Walk Around Zion

God's city is on a holy mountain. → picture 2Zion is the joy of the earth. → picture 4We think about God's love. → picture 5Number its towers. → picture 1God will be our guide. → picture 3

Order:

1. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised2. We have thought about your loving kindness3. Walk about Zion, and go around her4. For this God is our God forever and ever

Grade 2This God Is Our God

  1. What is Yahweh? Great, and greatly to be praised
  2. Where was God's city? On his holy mountain (circle)
  3. What did the kings do? They were amazed and hurried away.
  4. What should people count? Zion's towers (circle)
  5. What will God be? Our guide (circle)
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Grade 3Walk About Zion

  1. What is Mount Zion called? The joy of the whole earth
  2. How has God shown himself in her citadels? As a refuge
  3. Where did they think about God's loving kindness? In the middle of his temple
  4. Why should they consider Zion's palaces? So they may tell it to the next generation
  5. How long is this God our God? Forever and ever
1: Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised2: We have thought about your loving kindness3: Walk about Zion, and go around her4: For this God is our God forever and ever
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Grade 4Tell the Next Generation

  1. What is the city's true strength? God, who has shown himself as a refuge
  2. What do the people mean by As we have heard, so we have seen? What they had been told came true in their day.
  3. Why should they walk about Zion and notice its walls? So they can tell it to the next generation
  4. In the New Testament, what city does Hebrews speak of? The heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God (Hebrews 12:22)

Word bank: 1. Zion; 2. Great; 3. city; 4. God; 5. towers

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

Grade 5Our Guide Even to Death

  1. Why is the city safe, according to the psalm? Because God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge
  2. What does God break with the east wind? The ships of Tarshish
  3. Why are the people told to number the towers and notice the walls? So they can tell the next generation
  4. In the New Testament, what does Jesus promise in Matthew 28:20? I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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