Joshua 18:1-19:9 Questions by Stephen Ricker
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Benjamin and Simeon's Allotment
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Memory Verse: Joshua 18:1-2
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Introduction
Outline

MAPS OF CANAAN CONQUESTS
TIMELINE FROM MOSES TO DAVID
THE DIVISION OF THE PROMISED LAND
A MAP OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
ISRAEL'S HISTORY
OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS TIMELINE

I. How Long Will You Wait to Take Possession of the Land (18:1-10)

1. Where did the Israelites gather and why? (1) What did they set up there? (19:51) What eventually happened to the tent of meeting? (Deut. 12:11-14; and 2 Samuel 7:4-7; and 2 Chron. 6:18)

2. Now that some of land was won what problem remained? (2) How did Joshua challenge them? (3) what did he tell them to do? (4)

3. How many parts was the new land to be divided into? (5-6) Who was not to get the new land?

4. What does it mean to cast lots? (8) What does it mean "in the presence of the Lord? (9-10) How can we know the will of the Lord? (Rom. 12:1-2; and 1 Cor. 6:19-20)

II. Benjamin's Allotment (18:11-28)

5. Where did Benjamin's territory lie? (1) What had Jacob said about him? (Gen. 49:27)

6. What was the land like? See a map.

III. Simeon's Allotment (19:1-9)

7. How was Simeon's allotment different than the rest? (1-2, 9) How was this fulfilment of Jacob's prophecy? (Gen. 34:30, 49:5-7) How did Simeon decrease over the generations? (Num. 1:22-23, 26:12-14; and 1 Chron. 12:23-37; and 2 Chron. 34:6) What can be learned about the character that the Lord desires? (Matt. 5:9)

8. What was the land of Simeon like? See a map.