Joshua 10: Keeping Covenant

If you remember before Spring Break we studied chapter 9 of Joshua where the children of Israel made a covenant with a group of people inside the land. This week we will look at what it means for them to keep that covenant. 

Observation:

• Read Joshua 10
• Read Joshua 10 and mark every reference to: Joshua, Gibeonites, the people of Israel, The Lord, 5 Kings of the Amorites, struck, fight (fought)
• Using your journal write down the answers to the following questions:
• Who rose up against the Gibeonites? Why?
• Why did Israel get involved? 
• What does the Lord say about this matter?
• How are the Amorites killed?
• What event happens here that makes it like "no day like it before or after"
• What happens to the kings of the Amorites? 
• What happens after Joshua kills the kind of the Amorites? What cites are then conquered? 
• Why were Joshua and the people able to defeat these cities? (Verse 42)

Interpretation:

• Why did the Israelites get involved when someone rises up against the Gibeonites? 
• Read 2 Samuel 21:1-14 and mark every reference to covenant (and oath). What do you learn in this passage about the gravity of making a covenant and not honoring it? 
• Read 1 Samuel 20:15-17,23,42 and mark the words agreement and oath (like you did for covenant). Why was Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan spared? 

Application: 
What have you learned about the gravity of covenant? Why is this lesson important for us?  What else did you learn about God this week? How does what you have learned changed what you know to be true and how you live your life?