Chapter 19 Study Questions

Question 1

What military rank was Joshua?

Answer 1

General

Question 2

What is Joshua’s longer Hebrew and Greek name?

Answer 2

Yehoshua - Hebrew

Yesus or Jesus - Greek

Question 3

According to Hebrew canon, what was Joshua considered to be?

Answer 3

First of the former prophets

Question 4

What is the theme of Joshua?

Answer 4

Conquering, or possessing, the promised land of Canaan

Question 5

Who was the author of Joshua?

Answer 5

Likely Joshua with minor additions from another author, such as his obituary.

Question 6

When was Joshua written?

Answer 6

The exact date is unknown.
Rahab was still alive.
Jebusites were living in Jerusalem, and were not expelled until the 7th or 8th year of David’s reign. Joshua’s composition must be pre-Davidic.

Question 7

What is the importance of the book of Joshua?

Answer 7

Historical value regarding God and Israel

Devotional value

Question 8

What is noteworthy about the battle of Gibeon? (Joshua 10:12-14)

Answer 8

The day was prolonged another 24 hours.

Question 9

What is the objection to Joshua’s long day?

Answer 9

Catastrophe would have befallen the earth and every living thing.

Question 10

What provides evidence that the planet may have been slowed its rotation on the day of the battle of Gibeon, but not completely stopped?

Answer 10

Chapter 10, verse 13. says the sun “did not hasten” to set… This does not necessarily indicate the earth stopped. The earth could have taken 48 hours to rotate rather than 24.

Question 11

Why did God want to exterminate the Canaanites?

Answer 11

1. The Canaanites were exceedingly wicked, given over to the most degenerate forms of polytheism and sexual immorality.
2. Their practices would influence Israel.

Question 12

What was particularly vile about Canaanite religious practices?

Answer 12

They sacrificed infants.

Question 13

What is meant by Joshua giving the land rest?

Answer 13

He was conducting a mop-up operation, allowing the tribes of Israel to cleanse the land of pockets of resistance.

Question 14

Was the practice of casting lots a method of gambling?

Answer 14

No. Casting lots was controlled by the sovereignty of God.

Question 15

Where does the name “Judges” come from?

Answer 15

The gifted executive/military leaders who delivered and ruled over Israel when the nation was a loose confederacy.

Question 16

What is the basic theme of Judges?

Answer 16

Israel was unable to keep true to the covenant even under the leadership of men chosen by God to deliver them from pagan oppression.

Question 17

When was Judges written?

Answer 17

Internal evidence suggests a date before David captured Jerusalem (c. 990 B.C.).

Question 18

What is evidence for the time period when Judges was written?

Answer 18

Judges 19:1 says at that time there was no king in Israel, implying that there was a king when the author was writing, before the days of the sinful monarchy.

Question 19

Who wrote Judges?

Answer 19

Unknown. Author may have been Samuel or a disciple of his.

Question 20

What is the theme of Judges?

Answer 20

Spiritual decline, defeat, and deliverance.

Question 21

Give the five-fold cycle of defeat and deliverance that is recorded in Judges chapter 2.

Answer 21

1. Spiritual decline: vv. 10ff.
2. Oppression: vv. 14-15
3. Repentance: v. 18
4. Deliverance: v. 16, 18
5. Rest

Question 22

What is the solution to the problem of chronology in Judges?

Answer 22

The careers of the Judges overlapped. Samson faced Philistine oppression and Jephtah faced Ammonite oppression at the same time.

Question 23

What is a likely alternative to Jephtah sacrificing his daughter in Judges 11:30-31, 39?

Answer 23

Jephtah gave his daughter over to temple service. She mourned her perpetual virginity, not approaching loss of life.

Question 24

List the Judges of Israel.

Answer 24

Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephtah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, Samson, Eli, Samuel.

Question 25

What is significant about Deborah?

Answer 25

She was a woman. Barak was a contemporary military leader, and Deborah, being a woman, could not be.

Question 26

What was significant about Samson?

Answer 26

Samson did not have the support of the people. He was an army of one.

Question 27

What is the purpose of the book of Ruth?

Answer 27

To relate the introduction of non-Israelite blood into the Davidic line

Question 28

What is the theme of Ruth?

Answer 28

The kinsman redeemer

Question 29

How is the kinsman redeemer a type of the Messiah?

Answer 29

KR must be a blood relative. Christ as a man was a near relative of mankind.
KR must have money to purchase the forfeited inheritance. Christ was able as He was sinless.
KR must be willing to buy back the forfeited inheritance. Christ was willing to die.
KR must be willing to marry the wife of the deceased kinsman. This is prophetic of Jesus taking the church as His bride.