Deuteronomy 18:1-19:21 Questions by Stephen Ricker
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Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 18:15

I. Offerings for Priests and Levites (18:1-8)

1. How was Levi's tribe to be different than the others? (1) What inheritance was theirs? (2) How is this the same for Abraham and us? (Gen. 15:1)

2. As the Levites stand and minister in the Lord's name what can they be sure of? (3-5) How did Jesus assure of the same thing? (Matt. 6:33-34) What if a Levite wanted to serve the Lord in the unnamed place for the temple? (6-8)

II. Detestable Practices (18:9-13)

3. What are the detestable acts of the Canaanites the Israelites were not to practice (9-11) How was their detestable acts the reason the Lord pronounced judgment on Canaan? (12-13; Gen. 15:12-16) How is the people of our generation similar to the Canaanites of Moses' time? (2 Tim. 3:1-9)

III. The Prophet (18:14-22)

4. What is sorcery and divination and what is the outcome of those who practice it? (14; Rev. 21:7-8) Who did the Lord promise to send and why might this promise follow the previous sentence? (15) Why was the prophet going to be sent? (16; Exo. 20:18-19, 33:1-6)

5. What was to duty of the prophet? (17-18) What does it mean to be called to account before the Lord? (19) How does Jesus fulfill the promised prophet? (John 14:9-11)

6. How is it possible to know if a prophet is sent by the Lord? (21-22) What does this mean to us? (1 John 4:1-6)

IV. Cities of Refuge (19:1-14)

7. What three special towns were to be set aside? (1-3) Why? (4-5) How does this reveal the compassion of the Lord?

8. The Lord promised that if they obeyed him the territory would increase. What then were they to do? (8-10) What was to happen to the man who shed innocent blood? (11-13) Why was it important to maintain each man's inheritance? (14)

V. Witnesses (19:15-21)

9. What is repeated in verse 15? (17:6) How did Jesus reinforce this? (Mat. 18:15-20; 26:59-61)

10. What were the priests and elders sure to due during an investigation? (16-18) If a witness if proven maliciously wrong what is to be done to him? (19) What would be the result? (20-21)