Reubenites, Gadites, and the Half-Tribe of Manasseh Returns to the East Side of the Jordan
Questions for Study 17
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I. Time to Go Home (22:1-9)
1. Who did Joshua ask for? What did he say to them? (2; Num. 32:20-22) What were they permitted to do? (4)
2. What were they and us to remember? (5; Matt. 22:36-40)
3. What does it mean to bless someone as Joshua did? (6-7) What had the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan acquired while keeping their promise to fight? (8) What can be learned of the Lord here even though these tribes weren't living in the promised land? (9)
II. They Build an Altar (22:10-20)
4. Where did the two and a half tribes build an altar? (10) What did Israel do when they heard this? (11-12) What does that say about this generation?
5. Before they went to war with their brothers what did the other tribes do? (13-14) What did they say? (15-16) What does it mean to break faith?
6. What happened in Peor? (17-18; Num. 25:1-4) What does this say about the purity and righteousness of the Lord and of us? (Rom. 13:12-14) What did the tribes west of the Jordan invite their brothers to do? (19-20)
III. A Witness Between Us that the Lord is God (22:21-34)
7. What did the two and a half tribes believe should happen to this if what the other suspected was true? (21-23) Why did they build the altar? (24-25)
8. How were they thinking of their children, grandchildren and all their descendants? (26-27) How would the altar act as a witness and how might we do this for our descendants? What witness do we have? (1 John 4:1; Rom. 5:5; Eph. 1:13-14)
9. How should false altars be far from us? (29) What was Phinehas glad had not happened? (30-31) Would the Lord Jesus be far from us if we had a false altar in our hearts? (Luke 16:13)
10. What had been averted? (32-33) What was the name of the altar?
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