1. What Did Joshua Tell the Transjordan Tribes to Do (22:1-4)?

Lesson 11

The Altar of Ed (Witness)

Joshua 22:1-34

1. What did Joshua tell the Transjordan tribes to do (22:1-4)?

2. What admonition did Joshua give the Transjordan tribes (22:5-6)?

3. What blessing did Joshua give the Transjordan tribes (22:7-9)?

4. What did the Transjordan tribes build and what was the initial response of the children of Israel (22:10-12)?

5. Who was sent to speak with the Transjordan tribes about what they had built (22:13-15)?

6. What charge was brought against the Transjordan tribes concerning what they had built (22:16-20)?

7. What purpose did the Transjordan tribes have in building what they did (22:21-29)?

8. How did the children of Israel respond after hearing the truth (22:30-33)?

9. What did the Transjordan tribes call the objectthey built (22:34)?

1. Where in the OT had Moses commanded the Transjordan tribes to help fight for their brethren before going to their inheritance (22:2)?

2. What was the “iniquity of Peor” and where is it recorded in the OT (22:17)?

3. What was the sin of Achan and where it is recorded in the OT (22:20)?

4. What is the meaning of “God” (Heb. elohim) and “Jehovah” (Heb. yahweh) (22:3,4,5,16,19,22,24,29,34)?

5. Where in the OT had the Lord commanded one place for sacrifices to be offered (22:23)?

6. Where in the book of Joshua did Joshua himself set up a stone for a “witness” (22:34)?

1. Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment (22:12-20; Jn. 7:24).

2. It is folly and shame to give answer before hearing the truth (22:12-20; Prov. 18:13; Jn. 7:51).

3. Zeal without knowledge is dangerous and can lead to needless problems (22:12-20; Rom. 10:2; Phil. 3:6).

4. Avoid “evil surmising” (22:12-20; Acts 16:27; 21:20,29; 1 Cor. 13:6-7; 1 Tim. 6:4).

5. Merely being labeled as a wrong-doer does not make it so (22:12-20; Mt. 11:18-19; Acts 26:24-25).

6. It is important to be zealous for the truth and accurate with the truth (22:12-20; Jude 3).

7. The Lord knows our hearts and the true purpose for which we do what we do (22:22; Rom. 2:16; Heb. 4:12-13).

8. The Transjordan tribes did not take an “out-of-sight-out-mind” approach to religion and neither should we (22:24-25; Phil. 1:27; 2:12).

9. It is important to pass on the pattern of the Lord’s word from generation to generation (22:28; 2 Tim. 1:13).

10. Let us never rebel and turn away from the Lord (22:29; Heb. 12:25).