426 's SHORT VIEW OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. on their necks, and then the slew them, and hanged them up ost five trees before the Lord; Josh. x. 24, 26. 22. Q. Did Joshua proceed to conquer the whole country? A. The Israelites under the conduct of Joshua, went on till they had slain one and thirty kings, and then the people rested from war for a season ; Josh. xi. 23. and xii. 24. 231 Q. Where was the tabernacle first set up after they came to Canaan ? A. In Shiloh, in the tribe of Ephraim, at some distance from Jerusakem, and there it tarried above three hundred years, even till the days of Samuel; Josh. xviii. 1. 1 Sam. i. 3. 24. Q. Ilow came it to be set up there ? A. By the ap- pointment of God ; for it is said, " He set his name first in Shi- loh ;" Jer. vii. 12. See Deut. xii. 5-16. 25. Q. Ilow was the' land of Canaan divided among the people? A. Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Ma- nasseh, had their inheritance given them by Moses on the other side Jordan, and Joshua cast lots for the rest of the tribes before the Lord in ; Numb. xxxii. Josh. xiii. 7, 8. and xviii. 10. 26. Q. Did not the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half Manasseh, go to help their brethren in destroying the Canaanites ? A. Yes, by the appointment of Moses, they went over Jordan to assist their brethren, till they were settled in the land ; Num. xxxii. 16-33. and Josh': i. 12-18. 27. Q What memorial did these two tribes and a half leave in the land of Canaan, that they belonged to the nation of Israel ? A. They built a great altar upon the borders of Jordan, not for sacrifice, but merely as a memorial of their interest in the God. of Israel, in the tabernacle, and in the worship thereof; Josh. xxii. 28. Q. Where was the tribe of Levi disposed of? A. Be- ingdevoted to the services of the tabernacle and religion, they were not fixed in one spot of ground, but had a share in the inheritance of every tribe, that they might teach every city the laws of God, and their duty; Josh. xxi. 3. 29. What did Joshua do just before his death? A. He summoned the people together, and made a most solemn cove- nant with them, that they shculd serve the Lord ; Josh. xxiii. and xxiv. 1 -28. 30. Q. Did the Israelites go on to drive out the inhabitants of Canaan after the death of Joshua ? A. Yes, by theappoint- ment of God, the tribe of Judah went up against Bezek; Judges i. 1 -4. 31. Q. What did the Israelites do to Adonibézek, or the king of Bezek, when they took him ? A. They cut off his thumbs and great toes ; Judges i. 6. 32. Q. What remark did he make upon it? A. He con- fessed the justice of God in this punishment, for he had cut MT
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