Monday Night Bible Study Lesson 12 – Joshua 14-18
QUESTIONS
Day 1 Review
1. What interested you most from reading the commentary notes?
2. What helped you most from the lecture?
Day 2 Read Joshua 14:1-15 (Note: This week’s lesson explains how the Promised Land located west of the Jordan River was divided between the 9 ½ tribes.)
[Open NIV] [Open NKJV]
3. What important lesson is learned from verse 5?
4. ? Thought Question: Why is it important to fully obey God’s instructions/ commandments?
5. What do you learn about Caleb from Numbers 13:30-33 when he and 11 others spied in the Promised Land 45 years prior to the events recorded in Joshua 14?
6. What did God promise Caleb in Numbers 14:24 and Deuteronomy 1:34-36?
7. How did God fulfill his promise to Caleb in Joshua 14:13-14?
8. What do you learn about God by the way he dealt with Caleb? What do you learn about Caleb by the way he dealt with God?
Day 3 Read Joshua 14:1-15 (again) and Joshua 15 [Open NIV] [Open NKJV]
9. Make a bullet point summary of Caleb’s own testimony about his glimpse of the Promised Land recorded in Joshua 14:6-12.
10. ? Personal Question: Write down some characteristic exhibited by Caleb in Chapter 14 that you hope is true of you. What action might you take to develop the characteristic exhibited by Caleb?
11. What did Caleb accomplish according to Joshua 15:13-17?
Day 4 Read Genesis 48:1-6, Joshua 16:1-10 [Open NIV] [Open NKJV]
12. Read Genesis 48:1-6 and explain why Jacob’s son, Joseph, did not receive any inheritance. Who received Joseph’s inheritance?
13. What did the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim fail to do according to Joshua16:10? What should they have done?
14. ? Personal Question: What did you learn from Joshua 16 that you can apply to your own life?
Day 5 Read Joshua 17:1-18 [Open NIV] [Open NKJV]
15. Make a bullet point summary of the conversation between the people of the house of Joseph (Manasseh & Ephraim) and Joshua recorded in Joshua 17:14-18.
16. How were the people of the house of Joseph less than noble in their appeal to Joshua (verse 16)? How did they exhibit a lack of faith in God’s promise to them?
17. ? Personal Question: How is fear keeping you from claiming what is rightfully yours in Christ Jesus? (Fear of being left alone or left behind, fear that God will not provide or protect, fear the opposition will be too great, fear of what others might think?)
18. How did Joshua show great leadership in his response to the house of Joseph (verses 17-18)?
19. What principle do you learn from Joshua’s response in verses 17-18?
Day 6 Read Joshua 18:1-10 [Open NIV] [Open NKJV]
20. How many Israelite tribes had yet to receive their inheritance (verse 2)?
21. What did Joshua ask of the Israelites in verse 3?
22. How did Joshua advise the Israelites in verses 4-6?
23. Who did not get a portion of land and who received land east of the Jordan River (verse 7)?
24. How did Joshua determine which of the remaining 7 tribes would receive what land (verses 6, 8-10)?
25. Who had the final authority in the land allotment, according to verse 10?
26. ? Personal Question: Who has the final authority over the decisions in your life? Write down measurable proof of the final authority over your life.