The Bible Story Part 41

(474-477 L.J.)

Describe and give the name of the great Way which has been called the "Queen of Roads". 476 L.J.

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LOCATING BIBLE CHARACTERS IN THE LAND

(Use map at the beginning of this chapter except when referred elsewhere. )

Abraham

Locate the place of Abram's birth, Ur in Chaldea. 21, 487 H.T.

Trace his migration, with his father and family, to Haran in Mesopotamia, 21, 487 H.T.; and his route from there to the land of Canaan, pa.s.sing through: Shechem (also known as Sichem), his first stopping place, 22, 487 H.T.; Bethel, where he built an altar, 22, 487 H.T.; Hebron, where he made his permanent home and where later Sarah died, 25,45 H.T.

Sodom and Gomorrah were situated in the valley of the Jordan where it broadens out in its southern part into a plain. The present Dead Sea is said to lie over the site of these two cities. Trace out on the map the distance covered by Abram when he pursued the five foreign kings "as far as Dan." 25, 26, 488 H.T.

How does the extent of land, "from the river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates," which was promised to Abram and his family, correspond to that territory ruled over by the great king Solomon? 28, 455, 488 H.T.

Locate the town of Beer-sheba, one of the homes of Abram. 42, 488 H. T.

Solomon built the great temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. 461 H.T. What other event do some think happened at this place? 41, 491 H.T.

Isaac

Locate and give the meaning of the name of the far distant land where Isaac's wife was sought. 50,491 H.T.

Jacob

Locate Paddan-aram, where Jacob fled from his home in Canaan to be with his uncle Laban. 68, 492 H.T.

Locate the ford of Jabbok near which Jacob wrestled with the angel. 80, 492 H.T.

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Joseph

Find the city of Dothan where Joseph's brothers conspired against him. 95, 492 H.T.

What other great man was a.s.sociated with Dothan? 151. T.J.,492 H.T.

In what part of Egypt was the fat land of Goshen, which Pharaoh gave to Joseph's father and brothers for a dwelling place? 125, 493 H.T.

(Note, in the story of the plagues, 158 H.T., that the Hebrews still dwelt in this particular part of Egypt in the days of oppression.)

Moses

Trace out the general route taken by the children of Israel from Egypt to Canaan, locating the Red Sea, where the hosts of Pharaoh were drowned, 180 H.T.; Mount Sinai, where the Ten Commandments were given, 201 H. T.; the wilderness, between the arms of the Red Sea, where the people wandered so long, 242 H. T.; Hebron, to which the spies were sent, 243 H. T.; Kadesh, where the people abode for many years and where Miriam died, 248 H.T.; Edom, the hostile land through which the people wished to pa.s.s, 249 H.T.; Mount Hor, where Aaron died, 250 H.T.; Moab, where the Israelites encamped for some time, 255 H.T.; the Jordan river, at the head of the Dead Sea, where the Israelites finally crossed into the land of Canaan, 285 H.T.

Joshua

(See larger map of Palestine, 14 T.J., for conquests of Canaan.)

When the children of Israel crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, they found it full of foes. Joshua, the courageous warrior, won the land for the Israelites.

Locate the scene of many of his mighty conquests--Jericho, 287 H.T.; Ai, also known as Hai, 294 H.T.; Gibeon, 300 H.T.; Jerusalem, 305 H.T.

Where was Gilgal, the place of Joshua's camp? 300 H.T.

Ehud

From what section of the land did the Moabites come who warred against the Israelites in the time of the judge Ehud? 315 H.T.

This is the same Moab to which the family of Naomi and Elimelech went to escape famine in their native city of Bethlehem (35 T.J.), which was six miles south of Jerusalem.

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By what physical formation were the people of Bethlehem able to see that there was food in the land of Moab? 487 T.J.

Gideon

Locate the land of the Midianites, the Arab wanderers who oppressed Israel in the time of Gideon. 319 H.T.

(This is said to be the same country whither Moses fled when he killed the Egyptian, 141 H.T.)

Samuel

(Map, page 14 T.J.)

By noting the three great cities of Philistia, Ashdod, Askelon, and Gath, give the general location of the land of the Philistines, the people so long at enmity with the Israelites (342,360,375 H.T.) from whose hosts came the giant Goliath (386 H.T.) 493 H.T.

Saul

Locate the country of Gilead where at Jabesh Saul's first battle was fought. 359 H.T.

(Note how the people of Jabesh-gilead later remembered Saul's help. 359,381,494 H.T.)

David