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Reader: Jeff
Teacher: Daniel Agee [contact]
Thought questions
- What kind of man was Caleb to get the Promised Land city of Hebron?
- Where is Hebron?
- What happened there as recorded in Genesis?
- How long did Caleb’s descendants occupy Hebron?
- What tribe of Israel was ultimately granted the city of Hebron?
- What were the 12 spies during their mission? (Read Numbers 34.)
- Why did the Israel tribe of Judah get the best cities also mentioned in Numbers 34?
- How do we have an idea which spy went to which area of the land, according to the Sages?
- Why did Caleb want to go to Hebron?
- Where were the "giants in the land" concentrated in relation to Hebron?
- Where did Joshua go on his mission?
- Where did Israel go first when they entered the Promised Land?
- Why would Caleb want the most difficult part of the land to conquer?
- How much faith and reason did Caleb show?
- What did he credit God for?
- What reason is recorded several times as the reason why Caleb got the land he got?
- How many others in Israel had the same attitude?
- What was Caleb trying to prove in his selection of the land he wanted? (Read Numbers 13:30.)
- How was Caleb like Daniel’s three friends when they faced death in the furnace for refusing to worship the idol (Daniel 3)?
- If Joshua had previously taken Hebron, why was Caleb described as the conquerer?
- When God selects a person He will bless, does that guarantee the descendants will be blessed?
- What did Caleb’s daughter ask of her father in chapter 15:19?
- What kind of person was Othniel and what position did he rise to?
- What was odd about Acsah’s asking her father Caleb for help?
- Why didn’t Othniel ask Caleb himself?
- What did Caleb give her compared to what she asked?