SWORD TRAINING

Bible School Curriculum for Age 4 - 5th Grade
Year One - Month 12 Content

Month 12 Stories
Ezekiel & the Valley of Dry Bones
Ezekiel 37:1-14
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Where did Ezekiel live? (In the land of the Chaldeans)
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The hand of the Lord was upon Ezekiel, and it set him down in the middle of ______________. (The valley)
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What was covering the surface of the valley where God brought Ezekiel? (Dry bones)
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How did God bring the dry bones back to life? (He had Ezekiel tell the bones to come back together and be reformed.)
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From where did God tell Ezekiel to call breathe that was to bring the bones back to life? (From the four winds)
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What do the dry bones in Ezekiel’s vision represent? (The whole house of Israel)
Temple Rebuilt
Ezra 1-6
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Which king first commanded that the temple be rebuilt? (Cyrus king of Persia)
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How many exiles returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple? (42,360)
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Who led the exiles in the first return to Jerusalem? (Zerubbabel)
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When the exiles returned, what did they do first? (Built an altar and kept the Feast of Booths)
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When rebuilding the temple, what had to be built first? (The foundation)
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How did the people respond when seeing the foundation of the temple? (Some rejoiced, but the old men who had seen Solomon’s temple wept.)
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As the exiles were rebuilding the temple, how did their enemies stop them? (They sent a letter to Artaxerxes, the new king, telling him that the people of Jerusalem wouldn’t pay taxes.)
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After Artaxerxes commanded that the people stop rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem, when did they start building again? (In the second year of king Darius)
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Why did Darius decide to allow the people to continue rebuilding the temple? (He found the original decree from Cyrus that had given them permission to build it.)
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After the temple was rebuilt, what feast did the returned exiles keep? (Passover)
Queen Esther
Book of Esther
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What was the name of King Ahasuerus’s first queen? (Vashti)
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Why did Vashti lose her position as queen? (She disobeyed the king. She wouldn’t come and present herself at his party.)
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How did Esther become queen? (She was selected from beautiful young women from all over the kingdom.)
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What was the name of Esther’s uncle? (Mordecai)
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Why didn’t Esther tell anyone that she was a Jew? (Her uncle Mordecai told her not to.)
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How did Mordecai help King Ahasuerus? (He learned of a plot to assassinate the king, and he passed the word through Esther to the king.)
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Why did Haman dislike Mordecai? (Mordecai wouldn’t bow before Haman.)
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How did Haman try to get even with Mordecai? (He got the king to pass a law that all Jews should be killed.)
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What would the king do to accept someone who came before him without being called? (Extend his scepter)
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How were the Jews saved? (Esther asked the king to spare her people.)
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How did Haman die? (He was hung on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai.)
Ezra Restores the Law & Nehemiah Rebuilds the Walls
Ezra 7 - Nehemiah 8
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What was Ezra’s job? (He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses.)
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The king sent Ezra to Jerusalem with gold and silver. What was the gold and silver to be used for? (To beautify the temple)
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Why didn’t Ezra ask the king for soldiers to travel with them to Jerusalem? (Ezra had told the king that God would keep them safe.)
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When Ezra came to Jerusalem, what sin did he find among the people? (They were marrying women who practiced idolatry and who would not turn to God.)
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Under the leadership of Ezra, what did the people do to restore themselves to God? (They repented, and they put away the idolatrous foreign wives.)
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What news did Nehemiah hear from the exiles who had returned to Jerusalem? (The walls and gates of the city remained broken and destroyed.)
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What was Nehemiah’s job before he returned to Judah? (Cupbearer for the king)
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When Nehemiah started rebuilding the walls, what did the enemies of the Jews do? (They planned to attack the workers to stop the work.)
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How did Nehemiah respond to those who wanted to attack those working on the wall? (He had the workers keep a sword with them at all times in case they needed to fight.)
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How long did it take the people to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem? (52 days)
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After the wall was complete, what did Ezra do? (He read the Law to all the people.)
Month 12 Memory Work
Sword Point
Nehemiah 1:10
They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.
Spiritual Truth Sentence
Tell me about the remnant:
Throughout time, when it seems most have left Him, there is always a remnant of people who are faithful to God.
Timeline
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Ezekiel & the Valley of Dry Bones
AGE OF RESTORATION
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Temple Rebuilt
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Queen Esther
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Ezra Restores the Law & Nehemiah Rebuilds the Walls
Map It
Persia
Jerusalem
Old Testament Books
BOOKS OF LAW
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Genesis
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Exodus
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Leviticus
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Numbers
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Deuteronomy
BOOKS OF HISTORY
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Joshua
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Judges
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Ruth
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1 Samuel
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2 Samuel
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I Kings
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2 Kings
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1 Chronicles
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2 Chronicles
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Ezra
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Nehemiah
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Esther
BOOKS OF POETRY
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Job
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Psalms
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Proverbs
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Ecclesiastes
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Song of Solomon
MAJOR PROPHETS
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Isaiah
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Jeremiah
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Lamentations
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Ezekiel
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Daniel
MINOR PROPHETS
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Hosea
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Joel
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Amos
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Obadiah
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Jonah
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Micah
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Nahum
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Habakkuk
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Zephaniah
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Haggai
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Zechariah
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Malachi
