Study Questions for Deuteronomy 4-34

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  1. Answer the following questions for Deuteronomy 4-12

    1. Why were the Israelites forbidden to make ‘graven images’? ch. 4
    2. In which chapter of Deuteronomy do you find the Ten Commandments?
    3. What is the great commandment given in chapter six?
    4. Where were the ‘frontlets’ to be worn on the body? chapter 6
    5. Under the second or deuteronomic law, what were the Israelites to do to the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites and other nations occupying the land of Canaan?
    6. From what diseases would God protect the Israelites if they loved and obeyed him?
    7. What had happened to the clothing of the Israelites during the 40 years they wandered in the wilderness?
    8. What does man live by besides bread?
    9. Why did the Lord command the Israelites to drive out the nations occupying the Promised Land?
    10. What did God command Moses to do after Moses broke the 2 tables of the law?
    11. What were the Israelites commanded to do with the Asherim?
    12. What did the pagan nations of the Land of Promise do to their own sons and daughters?

    Homework Questions: Deuteronomy 13-20
    1. How were the prophets and dreamer of dreams to be tested by the people of Israel?
    2. What kinds of animals were the Israelites permitted to eat? Which were forbidden? How often did they have to bring their tithe to the Levites
    3. What must happen every seventh year according to God’s command to them?
    4. When did they observe the ‘feast of weeks’?
    5. How many witnesses were required before putting someone to death for a serious crime?
    6. What four commands did God give them about choosing a king in the future?
    7. What command did God give about soothesayers, wizards and necromancers?
    8. Whom would the prophet raised up by God in future resemble?
    9. How long was the body of a man executed by hanging allowed to hang from the tree? What was the hanged man’s relation to God?
    10. What did the Israelites use instead of toilets?
    11. To whom could the Israelites lend money upon interest? To whom could they not?
    12. Where do you find the laws regulating divorce? Name them briefly.
    13. What privilege did the newly married man have?
    14. What was the punishment of a man who refused to marry his dead brother’s wife?
    15. Which was the year of tithing? To whom did the Israelite pay his tithing?
    16. How many curses or various are given in chapter 27?
    17. List five of the curses you think were worst which God pronounced on Israel if they failed to obey Him?

    Homework Questions for Deuteronomy 29-34
    1. What did God promise to give the Israelites after scattering them, making them outcasts, and then fetching them once more?
    2. What did God set before them on the that He renewed the covenant with them?
    3. Who is the “Rock” mention in the song of Moses?
    4. 7.To whom does vengeance belong, according to the song of Moses?
    5. What blessing did Moses give to the Israelites just before his death?
    6. Where did Moses die?







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