Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Law and Promise:

1. Question : How many tassels were to hang from the robe of an Israelite?


2. True or False? If a married woman was caught committing adultery with a man, the penalty for the man was lighter then that for the women.


3. Multiple Choice: The penalty for adultery was stoning. What was the penalty if an engaged woman had sex with another man ?

(a) Payment of a fine to the groom; (b) payment of a fine to the father of the bride;

or (c) both had to be stoned.1. Four (Deut. 22 : 12 ) The tassels were to remind the people to do the commandments of the Lord (Num. 15 : 37-41 ).


2. False - Both were to be executed (Deut. 22 : 22 )

3. (c) both had to be stoned (Deut. 22 : 23, 24 )

Monday, July 11, 2011

Law and Promise:

1. True or False? If an Israelite found something another had lost, he was entitled to keep it as his own possession.


2. Multiple Choice: What was an Israelite required to put on the roof of his house?

(a) A chimney; (b) a protective railing; or (c) the first commandment


3. True or False? It was permissible to yoke a donkey and an ox together to plow a field if a man did not have two oxen.



1. False If the owner came looking for it, it must be restored to him (Deut. 22:1-3 )

2. (b) A protective railing (Deut. 22 : 8 ) Most homes had flat roofs and
were built so people could walk on them.

3. False (Deut. 22 : 10 ) This obviously was a practical order, given the varying size and strength of the two animals.




Sunday, July 10, 2011

Law and Promise:

1. Question: What penalty was prescribed for a stubborn and rebellious son who would not change even when corrected by his parents?


2. True or False? If a man was executed for a sin worthy of death, his dead body was to be hung on a tree but not left there overnight. 1. He was to be stoned to death (Deut. 21 : 18 -21 )


2. True (Deut. 21 : 22,23 ). Paul quotes the end of verse 23 in reference to the death of Christ--"Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree". (Gal. 3 : 13 )

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Law and Promise


1. True or False? If a man desired to marry a woman who had been taken captive in battle, that woman had to shave her head before they could be married.


True (Deut.) 21 : 11, 12 )



2. If a man took a wife from among the captives of war and decided later he had made a mistake, he could send her away.


True (Deut. 21 : 14 ) . However, she was not to be sold as a slave or mistreated in any way.


3. If a man had two wives, one loved and one unloved, he was allowed to count the firstborn son of the one loved as his true firstborn, even if the unloved bore him a son first.


False (Deut. 21: 15-17 ) The firstborn was to receive a double portion regardless of which wife gave birth to him.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Law and Promise:


1. True or False ? Before the army of Israel attacked a city outside the Promise Land, they were to make an offer of peace to that city.


True (Deut. 20 : 16 ) This law did not hold true for those cities inside the land God had given to them. Those people were to be destroyed (Deut. 20 : 16 ).



2. Fill in the blank: "Of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an -----, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive".


"Inheritance" (Deut. 20 : 16)

Tuesday, July 5, 2011



Law and Promise:






1. True or False? The "fainthearted" soldier in Israel's army was to be strong in the Lord and go ahead into battle.


False - He was to go home, lest he cause others to become fainthearted.

(Deut. 20 : 8 )

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Law and Promise:

1. True or false? If a man was engaged to a woman but had not yet married her he was not to go into battle.


2. Multiple Choice: As the men of Israel went out to battle, someone was to come and remind them that the Lord would be going with them to fight for them. Whose role was this ?

(a) King; (b) prophet; or (c) priest.1. True (Deut 20 : 7 ).


2. (c) Priest (Deut. 20 : 2-4 )