Questions on the Book of Joshua

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Chapter 1
1. What did God give Joshua to do?
2. What token of possession did God give the children of Israel in every place?
3. By what was Joshua to ensure success?
Chapter 2
1. How did Rahab know anything about God?
2. What token did the spies give her?
3. Whom did they promise to save?
Chapter 3
1. Who went into Jordan first?
2. Why must the people not come quite near the ark?
3. What was "the wonder" the Lord did?
4. How were they to know that the living God was among them?
5. If the living God was among them, what else would they know?
6. What were the twelve men chosen for?
7. Where was the water of Jordan?
8. Where did the priests who bore the ark stand?
Chapter 4
1. What were the twelve stones a memorial of?
2. Where did Joshua set up twelve stones?
3. How long, did the priests stand in the midst of Jordan?
4. What did the Lord do to Joshua on the other side of Jordan?
5. What happened as soon as the priests were come up out of Jordan?
6. Where did they setup the twelve stones?
7. Describe the difference between Israel passing through the Red Sea, and Israel passing over Jordan?
8. Can you explain the three figures of the death of Christ, the Passover, the Red Sea, and Jordan?
Chapter 5
1. What did the Israelites do on the shore of the Red Sea?
2. What were they told to do at Gilgal?
3. What was the meaning of circumcision?
4. What is the meaning of Gilgal?
5. What else did they do in Gilgal?
6. What day did the manna cease?
7. Who met Joshua by Jericho?'
8. What did He come to teach Joshua?
Chapter 6
1. How did the Lord tell Joshua to take Jericho?
2. What were the armed men to do?
3. What were the priests to do?
4. Describe all that happened on the. seventh day?
5. What solemn warning did Joshua give the people?
6. How did Rahab save her friends?
7. What did Joshua say abort the city of Jericho?
Chapter 7
1. Why did not the Lord go with them against Ai?
2. When Joshua prayed what rebuke did God give him?
3. What were the people to do to themselves in order that God might show the guilty one?
4. What did Joshua say to Achan?
5. Why was it wrong to have a Babylonish garment with his own stuff?
6. Where did they carry Achan and all that he had?
7. Who stoned Achan?
8. Why was the place called the valley of "Achor?”
Chapter 8
1. How did the Lord encourage Joshua?
2. How did they take Ai?
3. How did Joshua show that he felt the land belonged to the Lord?
4. What commandment of Moses did Joshua obey?
Chapter 9
1. What did the inhabitants of Gibeon do?
2. How were the princes of Israel deceived?
3. What was the wrong thing Joshua did?
4. What did Joshua make the Gibeonites?
Chapter 10
1. Where was the camp of Israel?
2. What was the fate of those who gathered against Gibeon?
3. How did the Lord hearken to the voice of a man?
4. Why did Joshua always go back to. Gilgal?
5. What was done to 'the five kings?
Chapter 11
1. What did the Lord do to the nations who gathered together?
2. Why did Joshua burn Hazor?
3. Who were the only people that remained in the land?
Chapter 12
1. How many kings did Moses destroy?
2. How many kings did Joshua destroy?
Chapter 13
1. When Joshua was old what did he do?
2. Why did Levi get no inheritance?
3. On what man did God's just judgment fall?
Chapter 14
1. How did Joshua and Eleazar divide the land?
2. What is remarkable about Caleb's inheritance?
3. When had Caleb's feet trodden on Hebron?
4. What Made Caleb feel so strong?
Chapter 15
1. What were the names of the four giants who lived, at Hebron, and who frightened the spies?
2. What reward did Caleb give to Othniel?
3. What did Caleb give Achsah?
4. To whom did Jerusalem belong?
Chapter 16
1. What lot fell to the children of Joseph?
Chapter 17
1. What did Joshua say to the children of Joseph?
Chapter 18
1. Where was the tabernacle set up?
2. Where did Joshua cast lots for them?
Chapter 19
1. Who divided the land by lot?
2. Where did the people stand while dividing the lots?
Chapter 20
1. Why were cities of refuge appointed?
2. Who lived in the cities of refuge?
Chapter 21
1. How many cities did they give to the Levites?
2. To whom was the city of refuge belonging to Hebron. given?
3. How much came to pass of all the good that God had spoken of?
Chapter 22
1. What did Joshua say to the two and a half tribes?'
2. What did. these tribes do when they got to the other side of Jordan?
3. What did the other tribes feel about it?
Chapter 23
1. When Joshua was old whom did he send for?
2. What advice did Joshua give?
3. What warning did Joshua give?
Chapter 24
1. Of what did Joshua remind them in this chapter?
2. What did their history prove about God?
3. What response did Joshua's praise draw forth from the rest?
4. What did the people choose?
5. What was the covenant that Joshua made with them?
6. What did Joshua say about the stone?
7. How long did Israel serve the Lord?
8. What interesting rite did they perform at Shechem?
9. Whose death is recorded, and who succeeded him?
10. What have you learned about God in the Book of Joshua?