JOSHUA.
PART FIRST.
THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN.
i. 1-xii. 24.
§ I.
PREPARATORY
MEASURES.
i. 1-ii. 24.
1. A Charge to Joshua.
i. 1-9.
- Was the law in Joshua's hands?
7, 8.
- Rule of success?
7, 8.
2. Provisions Prepared.
10, 11.
- Why not depend on manna?
10, 11.
3. An Order to the Two and Half Tribes.
12-18.
4. Two Spies Sent into Jericho.
ii. 1-24.
- Why send spies?
- Why in a harlot's house?
1, 13.
- Why flax on the roof?
6.
- What kind of men were the spies?
17-20.
§ II.
THE
PASSAGE OF THE
JORDAN.
iii. 1-v. 15.
1. Orders for the March.
iii. 1-13.
- Why keep so far behind?
4.
- What the line of march?
2. The Crossing.
14-17.
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- Why did Jordan overflow, and what banks?
15.
- How the waters cut off?
16.
3. The Monuments.
iv. 1-9.
- How the stones in Jordan seen?
9.
- How long?
4. The Ark Moves and the Waters Return.
10-18.
5. The Time and the Monument at Gilgal.
19-24.
6. Effect on the Canaanites.
v. 1.
- Was the writer present?
- Why the crossing not resisted?
i. 15, 16.
7. The Neglected Circumcision.
2-9.
- What was the reproach of Egypt?
9.
8. The Passover Kept and the Manna Ceases.
10-12.
- Time since leaving Egypt?
10.
9. A Warning to Joshua.
13-15.
§ III.
THE
FALL OF
JERICHO.
vi. 1-27.
1. Plan of the Siege.
vi. 1-7.
- Whence the seven priests?
4.
2. The March.
8-21.
- Why the silence?
10.
- Singularity of the march?
- Possibility of the seventh day's march?
15.
- Meaning of "devoted to the Lord"?
17.
- When this speech made?
17-19.
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3. Rahab Saved.
22-25.
4. A Curse on the Rebuilder of Jericho.
26, 27.
§ IV.
THE
SIEGE OF
AI.
vii. 1-viii. 35.
1. The First Attack.
vii. 1-9.
2. Cause of the Defeat.
10-15.
3. Achan Detected and Punished.
16-26.
- Why his family and property?
24.
- Where the valley of Achor?
24, 26.
- Lesson of this event?
4. A New Plan of Attack.
viii. 1-9.
- Why the spoil given this time?
2.
- Why such a stratagem needed?
5. The City Taken and Destroyed.
10-29.
- Why place more in ambush?
12.
- How could the ambush see Joshua's spear?
18, 19.
- Population of Ai?
25.
- Why the king taken down?
Deut. xxi. 22, 23.
6. The Altar and the Reading at Mount Ebal.
30-35.
§ V.
CONQUEST OF
SOUTHERN
CANAAN.
ix. 1-x. 43.
1. Confederation of the Kings.
ix. 1, 2.
- Why not assembled before?
2. Surrender of the Gibeonites.
3-15.
- Their motive?
9, 10, cf. 24.
- The real distance?
- Significance of taking of their victuals?
14.
3. The Cheat Detected and Punished.
16-27.
4. The Allied Kings Threaten Gibeon.
x. 1-5.
- Why Gibeon instead of Joshua?
5. They Are Defeated by Joshua.
6-14.
- Direction of sun and moon?
12.
- How did they stand still?
- Purpose of it?
- What the book of Jasher?
13.
6. Capture of the Kings.
15-27.
7. Remainder of the Campaign.
28-43.
- Extent of conquered country?
40, 41.
- Was there much resistance?
- Why not?
§ VI.
CONQUEST OF
NORTHERN
CANAAN.
xi. 1-xii. 24.
1. Jabin's Host and the Waters of Merom.
xi. 1-5.
- Describe the waters of Merom.
5,
cf. Lands of the Bible, 31. [128]
2. Joshua's Victory.
6-9.
- Why not keep or kill the horses?
9.
3. The Cities Taken and Sacked.
10-15.
- Where Hazor, and why it alone burned?
10, 13.
4. Extent of Conquest and Stubbornness of the Enemy.
16-20.
- Where mount Halak and Baal-gad?
17.
- How their hearts hardened, and why?
20.
5. Destruction of Anakim.
21-23.
- Who were they? Cf.
Num. xiii. 33.
- Why left in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod?
22.
- How to justify this war?
6. List of Conquered Kings.
xii. 1-24.
- Entire number?
24.
- What inference?
[Here The Geographical part of Lands of the Bible.]
PART SECOND.
THE DIVISION OF THE LAND.
xiii. 1-xxiv. 33.
§ I.
SETTLEMENT OF THE
TWO AND A
HALF
TRIBES.
xiii. 1-33.
1. An Order to Joshua.
xiii. 1-14.
- Did Israel need the territory not possessed?
6.
2. The Inheritance of Reuben.
15-25.
3. Inheritance of Gad.
24-28.
4. Inheritance of One Half Manasseh.
29-35.
§ II.
THE
INHERITANCE OF
JUDAH.
xiv. 1-xv. 63.
1. Plan of Division Stated.
xiv. 1-5.
2. Petition of Judah and Caleb.
6-15.
- How long had the war continued?
7, 10.
- Caleb's choice settled his tribe.
3. Boundary Line of Judah.
xv. 1-12.
- Known points in the line south?
2-4;
east?
5;
north?
7-11.
4. Caleb Takes His Cities.
13-19.
- When had Hebron received the name Arba?
13, 14.
- Why ask for a field?
19.
5. The Cities in the Territory of Judah.
20-63.
- How many? See
32,
36, 41, 44, 51, 54, 57, 59, 60, 62,
and Jerusalem,
63.
- Why Jerusalem not taken?
63.
§ III.
THE
LOTS OF
EPHRAIM AND
WESTERN
MANASSEH.
xvi. 1-xvii. 18.
1. The Boundary of Ephraim.
xvi. 1-10.
- Points in southern line?
2, 3.
- Points in northern line?
- Why Gezer not taken?
10.
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2. The Divisions of Manasseh, and the Inheritance of the
Daughters of Zelophehad.
xvii. 1-6.
- Which the larger division?
1, 2.
- Meaning of, "ten parts"?
5.
3. The Boundaries of Manasseh.
7-13.
- Points in south line?
7.
- Relative positions of Ephraim and Manasseh?
10.
- How Asher on north and Issachar on east?
10.
- Remnant of Canaanites.
11-13.
4. The Children of Joseph Petition for More Land.
14-18.
- Why say, "one lot and one part"?
14.
- What the wood country?
15, cf. 18.
- Few cities in Ephraim and Manasseh are mentioned.
§ IV.
SETTLEMENTS OF THE
OTHER
SEVEN
TRIBES.
xviii. 1-xix. 51.
1. The Land Surveyed.
xviii. 1-10.
- Where the tabernacle?
1.
- How many surveyors?
4.
- Their method?
8, 9.
2. Benjamin's Lot.
11-28.
- Why called a lot? See
10.
- Relative position, and why?
11.
- Points in the boundary?
- How many cities?
24, 28.
[Twenty-six.]
3. The Lot of Simeon.
xix. 1-9.
- What part of Judah?
- What became of Simeon eventually?
4. The Lot of Zebulun.
10-16.
- Points not clearly identified?
[The lot from Lake of Galilee westward.]
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5. The Lot of Issachar.
17-23.
- Places identified and relative position?
6. The Lot of Asher.
24-31.
7. The Lot of Naphtali.
32-39.
8. The Lot of Dan.
40-48.
9. A City Given to Joshua.
49-51.
§ V.
THE
CITIES OF THE
LEVITES.
xx. 1-xxi. 45.
- What of Caleb's claim on Hebron?
xxi. 11, 12.
- Where the cities of refuge?
xx. 7, 8.
- In what tribes the Gershonites?
6.
[Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and half Manasseh.]
- In what tribes the Merarites?
xxi. 7.
[Reuben, Gad and Zebulun.]
- In what tribes the Kohathites?
xxi. 4, 5.
[Judah, Simeon, Benjamin, Manasseh, Ephraim and Dan.]
- Why the Kohathites most favored?
§ VI.
RETURN OF THE
TWO AND
HALF
TRIBES.
xxii. 1-34.
1. Joshua Commends and Dismisses Them.
xxii. 1-8.
- Their riches.
8.
- When was this?
2. An Altar Built and War Threatened.
9-14.
3. The Remonstrance of Phinehas.
15-20.
- Baal-peor and Achan remembered?
17, 20.
- Bearing on central place of worship?
16, 19.
4. The Response and Agreement.
21-34.
- Why the fears of the builders?
24, 25.
§ VII.
JOSHUA'S
FAREWELL
ADDRESS AND
DEATH.
xxiii. 1-xxiv. 33.
1. Address To Elders and Officers.
xxiii. 1-16.
2. Address To All Israel.
xxiv. 1-28.
- Why at Shechem?
1.
- Original worship of Terah?
2.
- Joshua's resolution.
15.
- Why tell them they could not serve God?
16-22.
- In what book written?
26, cf. xxiii. 6.
3. Deaths and Burials.
29-33.
- Character of Joshua?
- Where were Joseph's bones buried? [133]
REVIEW.
PART FIRST.
Subject and extent of this Part?
§ I.
- What were the preparatory measures for the invasion of Canaan?
- Repeat the charge given to Joshua.
- What was his purpose in sending spies?
- Why were the spies so careful in their covenant with Rahab. 4.
§ II.
- Describe the passage of the Jordan.
- Why the river out of its banks, and what banks?
- God's purposes in this miracle?
- What two monuments were erected to commemorate this crossing? 3.
- Why so few warriors of the two and a half tribes?
- What held back the waters?
- What was done about circumcision? 7.
- When did the manna cease? 8.
- Design of the appearance of the Captain of the Lord's host? 9.
§ III.
- Describe the siege of Jericho. 4.
- Design of this method of siege?
- Why the silence observed in the march?
- Why was all the property of the city devoted? 2.
- Quote and explain the comments of James and Paul on the case of Rahab.
- What became of Rahab?
§ IV.
- Describe the siege of Ai.
- Why was Joshua so easily discouraged? 1.
- Lesson taught by the case of Achan? 2, 3.
- Why the spoil of Ai given when that of Jericho had been withheld? 4.
- Describe the place of reading at Mount Ebal. [134]
§ V.
- What led to Joshua's first great battle? 1-5.
- How did the Gibeonites obtain the information on which they acted? 2.
- Nature of the service to which they were subjected?
- Purpose of causing the sun to stand still? 5.
- Why the reference to the book of Jasher?
- Position of sun and moon when command was given?
- Why the pursuit of the enemy so urgent? 5.
- What part of the country next subdued? 7.
- How so many cities taken without a siege?
§ VI.
- What led to Joshua's second great battle? 1, 2.
- Describe the "waters of Merom."
- Where was Hazor, and why it alone burned? 3.
- How did one victory lead to such results?
- Why did the Canaanites continue the fight when they saw what God did? 4.
- How is this war of invasion and extermination justified?
- How many kings were conquered in these two campaigns? 6.
PART SECOND.
Subject and extent of this part?
§ I.
- Locate the inheritances of the two and half tribes.
- Describe the country given to them. 2-4.
§ II.
- What led to the selection of Judah's inheritance? 2.
- How long the war?
- What was Judah's first boundary? 3.
- How many cities included in it? 5. [One hundred and sixteen.] [135]
§ III.
- Where were Ephraim and Manasseh located? 1, 2.
- In what condition were the mountains of their territory? 3.
§ IV.
- Where was the tabernacle pitched after being moved from Gilgal? 1.
- Where was Benjamin located? 2.
- To which tribe did Jerusalem belong?
- Where was a place found for Simeon? 3.
- Give the relative positions of the other tribes. 4-8.
- Of all.
- What provision was made for Joshua? 9.
§ V.
- What rule followed in selecting the Levitical cities?
§ VI.
- When the warriors of the two and a half tribes were dismissed, what
trouble arose, and how was it settled?
- What evidence that they had the book of Moses? 1, 3.
§ VII.
- To what two audiences, and where, did Joshua make parting addresses?
- What warning did he give the elders?
- What sketch of history in his address to the people?
- What alternative did he place before them?
- How did he get a pledge from them?
- How did he perpetuate the remembrance of this pledge?
- Give the closing paragraph of the book.
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