Concise Survey of
THE OLD TESTAMENT

And How It Contrasts With the New Testament


Lesson Four

Joshua
Conquering the Promised Land
1400 BC
DAY ONE:
NOTE:� This book is very difficult for some people to accept, and often leads doubters to believe there is no God at all.� That is because of all the killing God commanded.� Therefore, most of "day one" will be spent understanding the wars.
THE KILLING WAS PUNISHMENT
GENESIS 15:13-16 - God did not randomly select a country and tell the Jews they could have it.� When God first promised Canaan to Abraham's descendants, he would not let him have it yet.� "Your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own [Egypt], and they will be ____________________________ and mistreated ______ years.�"
"But I will _________________ the nation they serve as slaves, and afterwards they will come out with great _________________."
"In the fourth generation [people lived to be about 100 years old then], your descendants will come back _________, for the _____ _______________ of the ___________________________ has not yet reached its ______________ measure."
LEVITICUS 18:24-28 - God explained to Moses, after giving the commandments on sexual sins, "Do not _________________ yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the _______ _________ I am going to __________________________ before you became defiled.� Even the land was defiled; so I ____ _________________ it for its _______________, and the land _________________________ out its inhabitants....All these things were done by the people who lived in the land ____________ you, and the land became defiled.� And if you defile the land, it will vomit ___________________ out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
DEUTERONOMY 9:5-6� - God did not give the Jews the land of Canaan because they were so good, but because the people before them were so bad.� "It is not because of your [Jews'] __________ __________________________________ or your _____________ _________________ that you are going in to take possession of _____________ land; but on account of the __________________ of these _________________________, the Lord your God will drive them ___________ before you....for you are a ___________ ______________________________________ people."
JOSHUA 24:11-14 - Just before Joshua died, he recalled to the people how they got their Promised Land from the A__________ _________________, P______________________, C_________ _________________, H________________________, G________ ______________________, H________________________, and J____________________________....You did not do it with your own sword and bow.� So I gave you a land on which you did ________________ toil and cities you did _____________ build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did __________ plant.� Now fear the Lord and serve him with ______ faithfulness.� Throw away the _____________...and serve the _________________.
LOVE SOMETIMES MUST RESORT TO PUNISHMENT
ROMANS 11:22 - "Consider therefore the __________________ and _______________________ of ___________:� Sternness to those who _________________, but kindness to you, __________ that you continue in his ___________________.� Otherwise, you also will be ______________________________."
PROVERBS 3:11-12) -� "Do not _________________ the Lord's _____________________ and do not _________________ his _________________________, because the Lord disciplines those he _________________, as a father the son he delights in."
2 PETER 3:9 says, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his _______ _____________....He is patient with you, _________ wanting anyone to __________________, but everyone to come to ____________________________. "
GOD SEES THINGS FROM HIS SIDE OF ETERNITY
Remember when God told Moses he had to die because he struck the rock for water instead of speaking to it?� But we know he went to heaven because he appeared centuries later to Jesus (Matthew 17:3).� Sometimes God needs to take evil influences out of the way of a new group of people, hoping they will do better.
Undoubtedly good people as well as bad died when Canaan was conquered.� But, if they went to heaven, they were much happier then anyway.� We must not think of the death of good people as punishment.� It is a door to excitement.
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1:1������ Who did God appoint as Moses' successor after he died?� _______________________
1:4������ God said he would give all the land between the river ___________________________ (in today's Iraq) and the ___________________ sea [Mediterranean].
2:1������ Joshua sent ______________ men to spy out what city?� __________________________
����������� They were to stay in the house of ____________________ who was either a prostitute or an innkeeper (the original Hebrew language is vague here).
DAY TWO:
2:4������ When the king of Jericho searched for the Israelite spies, Rahab did what?� _________________________
2:9f����� Why?� __________________________________________________________________________________
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2:15���� How did the spies escape Jericho? ___________________ _______________________________________
2:18���� They told Rahab she and any family members in her home would be saved if she did what?� ____________________ ______________________________________
����������� THOUGHT QUESTION:� Do you think she might have been tempted to hang out a blue rope?� _____________� Why?� _______________________� Do people today tend to hedge on God's terms of their salvation? ____________� _______________________
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3:3������ What were the priests to carry at the head of the army to indicate they were to head toward Jericho? ____________� ________________________________________________
3:15f��� As soon as the priests' feet touched the flooded Jordan River, what happened?� ________________________________________________________________________________________
3:17���� How long did the priests stay in the middle of the Jordan?� ___________________________________
5:6f����� God told this new generation of men to be what? _______ ____________________________________
5:14���� A man appeared to Joshua with a sword in his hand.� He identified himself as the ___________________
����������� of the army of the ________________.
5:15���� This man told Joshua the ground he was standing on was ________________.� Who do you think this man was (see Revelation 1:12-18)?� _____________________________
6:14���� What did Joshua's army do every day for six days? ______ ____________________________________
6:15f��� What did they do on the seventh day and after the seventh time circling the city?� __________________
����������� According to Numbers 26:51, there were over half a million fighting men in Israel's army.�
6:20���� What happened when they shouted? __________________� ____________________________________
DAY THREE:
10:5���� The army went up against five kings of the ________________________________.� (Remember they are the ones whose sin was not at its height in Abraham's time, so God waited to punish them until they were a lot worse.)
10:13�� What miracle occurred that day to help them win the battle?� ____________________________________
10:42�� In ___________________ campaign, Joshua's army conquered all the southern part of Canaan.
11:2���� The kings in which parts of Canaan did he fight next?� __________________________________________
14:4���� What tribe did not receive any land?� _________________
15:8���� What was an early name for the city of Jerusalem? _______
24:15�� Near Joshua's death, he told the people to ______________ this day whom ye will _________________; whether the ______________ which your ________________ served that were on the other side of the flood [of Noah], or the _________ of the� Amorites in whose land ye dwell:� but as for me and my _____________, we will ____________ ________________________________________________
24:31�� How long did the Israelites serve God? _______________________________________________________
Judges
Settling in the Promised Land
1300 BC
1:21���� The Tribe of Benjamin did not drive out the ____________.
1:28���� The Tribe of Manasseh did not drive out the ____________
1:30���� The Tribe of Zebulun did not drive out the _____________
1:31���� The Tribe of Asher did not drive out the ______________.
1:33���� The Tribe of Naphtali did not drive out the ____________.
1:34���� Who held off the Tribe of Dan so they couldn't take their share?� _______________________
2:3������ As a result, God said he would make them as thorns in their ____________________ and their gods shall be a _______________ to them.
DAY FOUR:
2:10f��� After Joshua died, a generation arose which ____________ ___________________ not the ___________________, and served ___________________________ (see verse 13).
3:8������ Therefore, God allowed the king of Mesopotamia to enslave the Israelites how long?� _________________
3:9f����� When the Israelites finally ________ unto the Lord, God raised up a ___________________, even ______________.� His title was ______________________.
3:14���� But when the Israelites did evil, God allowed them to be enslaved by the Moabites for how long?� ___________________
3:15���� So God raised up a deliverer named __________________
4:1f����� When the Israelites returned to evil, God allowed the Israelites to be enslaved by the king of ________________ for how long?� __________________________
4:4������ Who did God raise up as the next judge to turn them back to the Lord?� _______________________
5:31���� During her rule, the Israelites had peace how long?� ____________________
6:1������ But they returned to doing evil, so God allowed them to be controlled by the __________________ nation how long?� _________________
6:5������ When the Israelites tried to break free, the Midianites sent such a large army, it was _________________ to count them.
6:12���� Then God sent his angel to _________________________.
6:15���� Did Gideon think he could save Israel?� ________� Why?� _________________________
DAY FIVE:
7:7������ After God had Gideon reduce the size of the Israelite army to ______________________________, he said they were ready.
7:19���� Gideon's men terrified the Midianites at midnight by blowing ________________________ and breaking ________________.
7:22���� What happened to the Midianite army? ______________________________________________________
13:1���� Over and over the Israelites did evil, God allowed an evil nation to enslave them, they'd cry to God for help, then he'd send them another judge.� Finally, they were controlled by the Philistines _______________ years.
13:7���� God told a woman that she must not drink any ________ or eat anything __________________ because she would bear a son who would be a _________________________.
14:5f��� Years later a young ________________ came roaring at her son, Samson, and he __________ him apart with his ____ _______________________.
15:20�� Though he usually acted like a spoiled brat, God used Samson to judge the Israelites how long?� _____________� Who was their greatest enemy at this time?� ___________
16:3���� One time, Samson carried what on his shoulders to the top of a hill?� ______________________________
16:4 - 20�� In a nutshell, tell what happened between Samson and Delilah.
16:21f� When the Philistines captured Samson, they did what to his eyes?� _______________________________
����������� Then they shackled him and made him ________________ grain like an oxen.� But gradually his hair began to what?� ______________________________
16:29f� When they brought Samson out to entertain about 3000 "worshippers" what did Samson do? _______ ________________________________________________ _______________________________________
DAY SIX:
19:14�� A man and his mistress were on their way from Bethlehem and spent the night in Gibeah in the territory of ____________.
19:22�� While spending the night with someone, some Benjamites pounded on their door demanding that the visitor be handed over to them so they could do what? _________________ ________________________________________________
20:12�� When the people of the other 11 tribes heard about it, they demanded the Benjamites ___________________________ those wicked men so they could put them to ____________, according to the Law of Moses.� But the Benjamites did what? ___________________________________________ ________________________________________________
20:35�� In one day, the Israelites killed how many Benjamites?� ________________________
20:47�� How many Benjamites were left alive? ________________
21:6���� Afterwards, how did the Israelites feel about their need to punish them?� __________________________
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I Samuel

The Last Judge
1150 BC
1:10f��� A woman who was barren prayed for a son.� What was her name?� __________________________� What did she promise if her prayer was granted? ___ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________
1:20���� About a year later, she gave birth to a son and named him ___________________________.
2:11���� After she weaned him, she and her husband took Samuel to Ramah where the tabernacle was, and the boy stayed there to ________________________________ before the Lord under _______________ the priest.
3:9f����� When Samuel was still a boy, who spoke to him?� ______
4:10f��� What did the Philistines capture from the Israelites?� ___________________________________
7:2������ A disease inflicted the Philistines as long as they had the ark, so they sent it back to the Israelites, where it stayed in a man's house for how long?� ________________________� By this time, Samuel had grown into a young man.
7:3f����� Samuel told the Israelites to get rid of their idols to what fertility god and goddess?� __________________ and ___________________________________
7:15���� How long was Samuel judge over the Israelites?� _______
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