Study 3 From The Book of
Deuteronomy is: Deuteronomy 3
1.
How did the conquest of Sihon
and of Og disprove the faithless fears of forty years before? Cf. 1:28 with
2:36 and 3:4-6. What use did later
generations make of the memory of these victories? Cf. Jos. 2:10; Pss. 135: 10,
11; 136:18-20.
2.
What do verses 21, 22 teach us
about the duty of mutual encouragement? Cf. how Paul sought to share his assurance
(2 Tim.1:12) with others (Phil. 1:6).
3.
Try to imagine the intensity of
Moses’ desire in verses 24, 25. What insight are we given into prayer and its
answer by this incident? Cf. Nu. 2. 20:12; Ps. 106:32, 33.
4.
Verse 26: ‘Let it suffice
you’. Moses must be content with his own
place in God’s work. He was the law-giver, and Joshua (Hebrew form of ‘Jesus’)
was the conqueror. How does Jn. 1:17 throw light on this?
Notes
1.
Verse 11. ‘Bedstead’: or possibly ‘Sarcophagus’. It was
eleven feet long and six broad.
2.
Verses 13-15. This double
division of the tribe of Manasseh greatly weakened it, thus fulfilling Gn.
48:14ff., in which Ephraim, although the younger of the two sons of Joseph, is
given priority over Manasseh.
3. Verse 29. “Beth-peor’:
‘house of Peor’, the Moabite god through which the people sinned (Nu.25).
