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Psalms 84 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: How Lovely Are Your Dwellings

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's House

birdsunheart

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

KindergartenNear God

BIRD → picture 2HOME → picture 4SUN → picture 1HEART → picture 3

Grade 1Better Than a Thousand

How lovely is your house! → picture 2The sparrow has found a home. → picture 4They go from strength to strength. → picture 5God is a sun. → picture 1God is a shield. → picture 3

Order:

1. How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!2. Yes, the sparrow has found a home3. They make it a place of springs4. For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield

Grade 2A Bird's Home

  1. What did the singer love? God's house (circle)
  2. What made a nest near God's house? A little bird (circle)
  3. How many days is one day in God's house better than? A thousand (circle)
  4. What is God like? The sun and a shield
  5. What does God give? Good things (circle)
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Grade 3A Day in Your Courts

  1. Who wrote Psalm 84, as the title says? The sons of Korah
  2. What did the sparrow find? A home near God's altars
  3. What do travelers make the valley of Weeping? A place of springs
  4. What would the singer rather be? A doorkeeper in the house of God
  5. What does God withhold from those who walk blamelessly? No good thing
1: How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!2: Yes, the sparrow has found a home3: They make it a place of springs4: For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield
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Grade 4Strength to Strength

  1. What is a pilgrim song? A song sung by people traveling to Jerusalem to worship
  2. What do the pilgrims do with the valley of Weeping? Make it a place of springs
  3. How do they travel? From strength to strength
  4. What would the singer rather be than live with the wicked? A doorkeeper in the house of God

Word bank: 1. lovely; 2. strength; 3. God; 4. day; 5. house

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

Grade 5A Sun and a Shield

  1. Who were the sons of Korah? A Levite family who served in the temple
  2. What can the valley of Weeping describe besides a place? Seasons of grief
  3. What does it mean that one day in God's courts is better than a thousand? Being with God for a short time is better than a long time anywhere else.
  4. What do sun and shield picture? God's light and protection
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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