Numbers (Adults)

Numbers Chapters 32-34

Lesson written by Brian Andrews

Chapters 32-34

Check your reading:

1. What did the people of Ruben and Gad request?  Why?
   
   
   
   

2. What was Moses’s response?  Was he pleased with this request?
   
   
   
   

3. What counter plan did the people of Ruben and Gad respond?
   
   
   
   

4. Did Moses except this counter plan?
   
   
   
   

5. What tribe was added?
   
   
   
   

6. What cities did the people of Gad build?
   
   
   
   

7. What cities did the people of Ruben build?
   
   
   
   

8. What did the people of Manasseh do before building their cities?  What cities did they build?
   
   
   
   

9. When and how did the people leave Egypt?
   
   
   
   

10. How long after leaving Egypt did Aaron the priest die?  How old was he?
    
    
    
    

11. What did the Lord command the Israelites to do with the inhabitants of the land?  Why?
    
    
    
    

12. How was the land to be inherited?
    
    
    
    

13. In what scenario would the inhabitants of the land be “as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides”?  What else would the inhabitants of the land do to the Israelites in this scenario?  What does God say he will do in this scenario?
    
    
    
    Research: Find at least one instance of this prophesied scenario coming to fruition.
    
    
    
    

14. What were the borders of the land to be?
    
    
    
    

15. Who was to inhabit this land?
    
    
    
    

Class Discussion

1. “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?”  Apply this concept of literal war to spiritual war and make comments.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

2. Moses was very quick to chastise the people of Ruben and Gad regarding their request.  Was he correct to do this?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

3. Do we ever fail to follow God’s laws completely and then suffer the consequences?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

4. Why you think the details of this section were recorded and preserved for us to read today?