OLD TESTAMENTRESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
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(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
Access the following: The Book of Hosea
Screen the brief video.
As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(6) The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(7) Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on the
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) Where did Hosea live?
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2) What happened to the Kingdom of Israel in 722 B. C.?
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3) What is found in the Book of Hosea?
_______________________________________________________.
4) How many sections are there to the Book of Hosea?
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5) What is the first section of the book about?
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6) What is the important point in chapters 1-3?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) What is the message, the prophetic symbolism, the story of Hosea is telling?
_______________________________________________________________.
8) Even though Israel broke the Covenant, with God, what is God going to do?
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9) Why is God going to do what is described in the previous question?
_______________________________________________________________________.
10) In chapters 1-3, what are the main themes of Hosea?
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11) How do each of the next two sections of the book end?
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12) What does the book of Hosea explore in chapters 4-11?
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13) What does the Hebrew word “yada,” “to know,” mean?
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14) Which god do the Israelites worship at Bethel and Gilgal?
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15) Besides worshiping other gods, what else does Hosea accuse Israel of doing?
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16) What does Hosea talk about in chapters 12-14?
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17) What hope does Hosea have?
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18) How does chapter11 depict God?
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19) What is the last chapter about?
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20) What is the Book of Hosea all about?
__________________________________________________________________________.
NAME _______________________________________________
NEW TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
Access the following: The Book of Ezekiel 1-36
Screen the brief video.
As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(6) The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(7) Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on quthe
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) Who was Ezekiel?
____________________________________________________.
2) What happened to Ezekiel when the Babylonians attached Jerusalem?
______________________________________________________.
3) Where is Ezekiel when the book opens?
_______________________________________________________.
4) What does Ezekiel see?
________________________________________________________________.
5) What does Ezekiel realize he is seeing?
__________________________________________________________________.
6) What does the Hebrew word “kabod” or “glory” mean in Hebrew?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) How do biblical writers use the term “kabod” or “glory”?
_______________________________________________________________.
8) What question does the opening of the book explain?
________________________________________________________________.
9) What does God appoint Ezekiel to do?
_______________________________________________________________________.
10) What does Ezekiel use to get his message across to the people?
__________________________________________________________________.
11) What was the bad news God gave to Ezekiel?
_____________________________________________________________________.
12) What is Ezekiel’s second vision about?
________________________________________________________.
13) How does Ezekiel’s second vision end?
__________________________________________________________________________.
14) Why has God left the Temple and gone into Babylon?
__________________________________________________________________________.
15) What does God promise to Israel at the end of the second vision?
________________________________________________________________________.
16) What are the next three sections about?
_________________________________________________________________________.
17) Who are the three judgments against?
__________________________________________________________________________.
18) What are the three hopeful sections about?
__________________________________________________________________________.
19) What takes place in the three final sections of the book?
_________________________________________________________________________.
20) What do chapters 12-24 focus on?
__________________________________________________________________________.
21) What does God’s justice demand?
__________________________________________________________________________.
22) With what message does the first half of the Book of Ezekiel end?
__________________________________________________________________________.
OLD TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
Access the following: The Book of the Prophet Amos
Screen the brief video.
As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(6) The assignment will be collected at the beginning of the next class, credited to you, and
returned to you.
(7) Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on the
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) What was the profession of Amos?
____________________________________________________.
2) What is the design of the Book of Amos?
______________________________________________________.
3) What do the poems at the beginning of the Book of Amos do?
_______________________________________________________.
4) How does the section of the Book of Amos explain why Israel will be punished?
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5) What is one of the key themes which Amos keeps repeating over and over?
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6) Why does Amos accuse the wealthy of hypocrisy?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) How does Amos describe true worship of God?
_______________________________________________________________.
8) What does righteousness, or “tsedekah” in Hebrew, mean?
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9) What does justice, or “mishpat” in Hebrew mean?
_______________________________________________________________________.
10) Why did the prophets consider the worship of the other gods of the nations as leading to
injustice?
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11) Because of their injustice, what does Amos predict for the people of Israel?
__________________________________________________________________________.
12) How does the Book of Amos close?
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13) What is the hope expressed in the final paragraph of the Book of Amos?
______________________________________________________________________.
14) Why is the final paragraph of the Book of Amos important?
_______________________________________________________________________.
15) What is the Book of Amos all about?
________________________________________________________________________.
NEW TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
Access the following: Ezekiel 24-48
Screen the brief video.
As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(6) The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(7) Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on quthe
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) What was the greatest catastrophe ever to happen to Israel?
____________________________________________________.
2) What Question did the Exile raise?
______________________________________________________.
3) How does the hope of Israel begin?
_______________________________________________________.
4) What kind of people will come under the rule of the new Messianic king?
________________________________________________________________.
5) What is the vision Ezekiel sees in the next section?
__________________________________________________________________.
6) What does this vision recall?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) What are the final two sections of the book about?
_______________________________________________________________.
8) What does the image of Gog represent?
________________________________________________________________.
9) What is the basic Story of God?
_______________________________________________________________________.
10) What is the basic message of the Story of Gog?
_____________________________________________________________________.
11) What is the message of the final section of the book?
________________________________________________________.
12) What returns and enters the New Temple?
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_.
13) What are two interpretations of the Story of the New Temple?
__________________________________________________________________________.
14) What is the name of the “Garden City” at the end of the book of Ezeliel?
________________________________________________________________________.
15) What is the Book of Ezekiel all about?
_________________________________________________________________________.
OLD TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
Access the following: The Book of Isaiah 40-66
Screen the brief video.
As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(6) The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(7) Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on quthe
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) What do chapters 40 and following explain?
____________________________________________________.
2) What do chapters 40-48 open with?
______________________________________________________.
3) What are the people told?
_______________________________________________________.
4) Whose voice is being heard in the words of hope?
________________________________________________________________.
5) What is the hope of the prophet?
__________________________________________________________________.
6) What is actually happening?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) What did the Exile in Babylon cause among the people?
_______________________________________________________________.
8) In chapters 41-47, what are the two responses God gives to Israel’s complaint?
___________________________________________________________________.
________________________________________________________________.
9) What should Israel conclude from all of this?
_______________________________________________________________________.
10) What do we find at the end of chapter 48?
_____________________________________________________________________.
11) What does God do?
________________________________________________________.
12) Who is introduced in chapters 49-55?
__________________________________________________________________________.
13) What two things will the servant do?
__________________________________________________________________________.
__________________________________________________________________________.
14) How will the servant do this?
________________________________________________________________________.
15) What did the death of the servant do?
_________________________________________________________________________.
16) What does the term “righteousness” mean?
__________________________________________________________________________.
17) What are two ways people can respond to the servant?
_________________________________________________________________________.
__________________________________________________________________________.
18) What do chapters 55-66 do”
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19) What does the servant do?
__________________________________________________________________________.
20) What will the New Jerusalem be?
__________________________________________________________________________.
21) What will God do to the “wicked”?
_________________________________________________________________________.
22) What will happen to the servants of God?
__________________________________________________________________________.
23) Who are invited to be part of God’s covenant people?
_________________________________________________________________________.
24) How does the Book of Isaiah end?
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25) What is the powerful hope of the Book of Isaiah?
__________________________________________________________________________.
OLD TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
Access the following: The Book of Isaiah 1-39
Screen the brief video.
As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(6) The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(7) Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on the
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) Where and when did Isaiah live?
____________________________________________________.
2) What was the two-fold message of Isaiah to the leaders of Jerusalem?
______________________________________________________________.
3) According to Isaiah, to whom will God’s blessing and salvation flow?
____________________________________________________________.
4) According to Isaiah, how will God judge Judah?
________________________________________________________________.
5) What will the “New” Jerusalem be like?
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6) In his encounter with God, what does Isaiah realize?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) What is Isaiah to do when the people reject his message?
___________________________________________________________________.
8) What imagery does Isaiah use to describe the destruction of Judah?
_______________________________________________________________.
9) Which nation will be the first to “chop down” Judah and devastate the land?
______________________________________________________________________.
10) What will God do after the initial destruction of Judah?
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11) What will be the name of the “new” king?
_______________________________________________________________________.
12) What imagery does Isaiah use to describe the coming of the “new” king?
__________________________________________________________________________.
13) What will this “new” king do?
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14) Which empire did Isaiah see as rising after the Empire of Assyria?
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15) What will happen to the “Lofty City?”
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16) For whom is the message of Isaiah intended?
_______________________________________________________________________.
17) What does King Hezekiah do?
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18) Why does Isaiah tell King Hezekiah that he is foolish?
__________________________________________________________________________.
19) What does the Empire of Babylon eventually do 100 years later?
__________________________________________________________________________.
20). According to the Book of Isaiah, what was the purpose of God’s judgment on Jerusalem?
_________________________________________________________________________.
OLD TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(8) Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
(9) Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
(10)Access the following: The Book of Isaiah 40-66
(11) Screen the brief video.
(12)As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(13)The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(14)Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on quthe
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) What do chapters 40 and following explain?
____________________________________________________.
2) What do chapters 40-48 open with?
______________________________________________________.
3) What are the people told?
_______________________________________________________.
4) Whose voice is being heard in the words of hope?
________________________________________________________________.
5) What is the hope of the prophet?
__________________________________________________________________.
6) What is actually happening?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) What did the Exile in Babylon cause among the people?
_______________________________________________________________.
8) In chapters 41-47, what are the two responses God gives to Israel’s complaint?
___________________________________________________________________.
________________________________________________________________.
9) What should Israel conclude from all of this?
_______________________________________________________________________.
10) What do we find at the end of chapter 48?
_____________________________________________________________________.
11) What does God do?
________________________________________________________.
12) Who is introduced in chapters 49-55?
__________________________________________________________________________.
13) What two things will the servant do?
__________________________________________________________________________.
__________________________________________________________________________.
14) How will the servant do this?
________________________________________________________________________.
15) What did the death of the servant do?
_________________________________________________________________________.
16) What does the term “righteousness” mean?
__________________________________________________________________________.
17) What are two ways people can respond to the servant?
_________________________________________________________________________.
__________________________________________________________________________.
18) What do chapters 55-66 do”
19)
20)
21)
22)
23)
24)
25)
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What does the servant do?
__________________________________________________________________________.
What will the New Jerusalem be?
__________________________________________________________________________.
What will God do to the “wicked”?
_________________________________________________________________________.
What will happen to the servants of God?
__________________________________________________________________________.
Who are invited to be part of God’s covenant people?
_________________________________________________________________________.
How does the Book of Isaiah end?
___________________________________________________________________________
.
What is the powerful hope of the Book of Isaiah?
__________________________________________________________________________.
NAME _______________________________________________
NEW TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
Access the following: The Book of Ezekiel 1-36
Screen the brief video.
As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(6) The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(7) Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on quthe
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) Who was Ezekiel?
____________________________________________________.
2) What happened to Ezekiel when the Babylonians attached Jerusalem?
______________________________________________________.
3) Where is Ezekiel when the book opens?
_______________________________________________________.
4) What does Ezekiel see?
________________________________________________________________.
5) What does Ezekiel realize he is seeing?
__________________________________________________________________.
6) What does the Hebrew word “kabod” or “glory” mean in Hebrew?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) How do biblical writers use the term “kabod” or “glory”?
_______________________________________________________________.
8) What question does the opening of the book explain?
________________________________________________________________.
9) What does God appoint Ezekiel to do?
_______________________________________________________________________.
10) What does Ezekiel use to get his message across to the people?
__________________________________________________________________.
11) What was the bad news God gave to Ezekiel?
_____________________________________________________________________.
12) What is Ezekiel’s second vision about?
________________________________________________________.
13) How does Ezekiel’s second vision end?
__________________________________________________________________________.
14) Why has God left the Temple and gone into Babylon?
__________________________________________________________________________.
15) What does God promise to Israel at the end of the second vision?
________________________________________________________________________.
16) What are the next three sections about?
_________________________________________________________________________.
17) Who are the three judgments against?
__________________________________________________________________________.
18) What are the three hopeful sections about?
__________________________________________________________________________.
19) What takes place in the three final sections of the book?
_________________________________________________________________________.
20) What do chapters 12-24 focus on?
__________________________________________________________________________.
21) What does God’s justice demand?
__________________________________________________________________________.
22) With what message does the first half of the Book of Ezekiel end?
__________________________________________________________________________.
NEW TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(8) Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
(9) Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
(10)Access the following: Ezekiel 24-48
(11) Screen the brief video.
(12)As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(13)The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(14)Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on quthe
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
23) What was the greatest catastrophe ever to happen to Israel?
____________________________________________________.
24) What Question did the Exile raise?
______________________________________________________.
25) How does the hope of Israel begin?
_______________________________________________________.
26) What kind of people will come under the rule of the new Messianic king?
________________________________________________________________.
27) What is the vision Ezekiel sees in the next section?
__________________________________________________________________.
28) What does this vision recall?
_______________________________________________________________.
29) What are the final two sections of the book about?
_______________________________________________________________.
30) What does the image of Gog represent?
________________________________________________________________.
31) What is the basic Story of God?
_______________________________________________________________________.
32) What is the basic message of the Story of Gog?
_____________________________________________________________________.
33) What is the message of the final section of the book?
________________________________________________________.
34) What returns and enters the New Temple?
_________________________________________________________________________
_.
35) What are two interpretations of the Story of the New Temple?
__________________________________________________________________________.
36) What is the name of the “Garden City” at the end of the book of Ezeliel?
________________________________________________________________________.
37) What is the Book of Ezekiel all about?
_________________________________________________________________________.
OLD TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
Access the following: The Book of 1 & 2 Kings
Screen the brief video.
As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(6) The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(7) Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on the
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
1) What did David do as king?
____________________________________________________.
2) What did God promise to David?
______________________________________________________.
3) What story does the Book of Kings tell?
_______________________________________________________.
4) How does the Book of Kings begin and end?
________________________________________________________________.
5) Who succeeds David as King of Israel?
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6) What does Solomon ask of God?
_______________________________________________________________.
7) What is Solomon’s greatest achievement?
_______________________________________________________________.
8) What does Solomon do that begins his downfall?
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9) After the death of Solomon, what do the ten Northern tribes do?
_______________________________________________________________________.
10) What is the name and capital of the Northern Kingdom?
_____________________________________________________________________.
11) What is the name and capital of the Southern Kingdom?
__________________________________________________________________________.
12) What three criteria does the author of the Book of Kings use in order to evaluate the kings
of Israel and Judah?
___________________________________________________________________________
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13) Which kingdom has the most negative kings?
_________________________________________________________________________.
14) What is another purpose of the Book of Kings?
___________________________________________________________________________
.
15) What was the “primary” goal of the preaching of the biblical prophet?
__________________________________________________________________________.
16) Who are two prominent prophets of the Northern Kingdom?
__________________________________________________________________________.
17) What did Elijah and Elisha both do regarding the Kings of Israel?
_______________________________________________________________________.
18) What kingdom conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel?
__________________________________________________________________________.
19) How does the author of the Book of Kings interpret the fall of the Northern Kingdom?
___________________________________________________________________________
20) Who are two great kings of the Southern Kingdom of Judah?
21) Which empire invades the Southern Kingdom of Judah?
_______________________________________________________________________.
22) What does the story of King Jehoiachin do for the people of God?
_________________________________________________________________________.
OLD TESTAMENT
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS:
(8) Using the Internet, access following site: The Bible Project: You Tube
(9) Scroll down to: “Read through the Bible – Old Testament ”
(10)Access the following: The Book of Joshua
(11) Screen the brief video.
(12)As you are screening the video, write the answers to the following questions. If you miss a
point or points, please review the video as often as necessary in order to complete the
assignment.
(13)The assignment will be collected at the end of class, credited to you, and returned to you.
(14)Please keep the credited and returned research assignment. It is testable material on the
final examination.
QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH:
23) Where does the Book of Joshua pick up in the Story of Israel?
____________________________________________________.
24) What are the four main movements in the Book f Joshua?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________.
25) What is the main point of the Story of Joshua’s encounter with the “Angel of God’s Army”?
_______________________________________________________.
26) What are the first two battles the Israelites engage in in the Land of Canaan?
________________________________________________________________.
27) What are the two “portraits” offered regarding Israel and God?
_____________________________________________.
28) What is the point of the Story of the Battle of Jericho?
_______________________________________________________________.
29) What is the main point of the Story of the Battle of Ai?
_______________________________________________________________.
30) What point does the two stories of the Battles of Jericho and Ai make ?
________________________________________________________________.
31) How does the second section of chapters 9-12 end?
_______________________________________________________________________.
32) What type of language does the Book of Joshua use in describing the conquest of the land?
__________________________________________________________________________.
33) What is the purpose of the battle stories in the Book of Joshua?
__________________________________________________________________________.
34) What is the storyline in chapters 13-22?
__________________________________________________________________________.
35) What is the importance of the stories of Joshua’s dividing the land?
______________________________________________________________________.
36) What does Joshua do in the final section of the Book of Joshua?
_______________________________________________________________________.
37) How does the Book of Joshua end?
________________________________________________________________________.