B90X: Day 17

Friends!

    Question. Why on earth do we say Amen instead of Awomen?

... I don't honestly know. Probably the same reason we sing Hymns instead of Hers. ;)

    So today's reading was Joshua 15:1 to Judges 3:27. I think Judges will prove to be an interesting book of the Bible.

1. How did Joshua determine who got which pieces of extra land?
2. The Israelites thought that Reuben and Gad had been building an altar for a false god outside of Canaan. What did they discover was actually the case when they went to visit them?
3. What were the Israelites preparing to do if Reuben and Gad had been rebelling against the one true God?
4. What "heard" everything the Israelites promised, and would "witness" and "testify against them" if they were to turn away from God?
5. Who wrote the book of Judges?

Ok, so for those of you who are wondering who wrote the book of Joshua and why I didn't ask that, there is a lot of controversy over who actually wrote it, so it isn't a clear cut answer. While Joshua clearly wrote certain parts of it, obviously he couldn't record things such as his death and same of the maps don't add up so it couldn't all be from a single primary source. However, in general, you could say Joshua wrote a fair bit of Joshua. :)

On to the answers! :)

1. What is the first miracle that the Lord performs through Joshua, and how was it similar to Moses? Drying up the Jordan. It was similar to Moses and God parting the Red Sea.
   
2. What unlikely person helped hide Joshua's spies once they entered foreign territory? Rahab the prostitute.
3. How did the Gibeonites deceive the Israelites? They pretended to be from a distant land and made a treaty with them.
   
4. Israel's swords killed many Amorites, but what act of God killed even more than all the swordsmen in Israel? A terrible hailstorm.
5. What tribe did not get an allotment of land from the Lord of all the things they plundered? The Levites. God, Himself, was there treasure.
   
6. Why was Caleb and his family allowed their own lot of land in Hebron? He was the spy that didn't stray from God, so he had land promised to him.

Keep up the good work, everyone! :)

-Michael