Fourth Commandment (Discussion Questions)
Categories: Ten Commandments (1-5)
Read Joshua 5:13-6:27
- Why does God want us to keep the Sabbath holy?
- What is the Sabbath for the Jews? Christians?
- How do you observe the Sabbath?
- Was healing on the Sabbath wrong?
- What kind of a city was Jericho?
- Could they walk right in and take over the city?
- Why not?
- What instructions did God give Joshua and his people? (Josh 6:3-5)
- Why do you think they were told to just walk around the city?
- What weapons were they going to use?
- What was God teaching them?
- What happened on the seventh day? (Josh.6:20)
- What lessons did God want the Children of Israel to learn about conquering Jericho?
- How realistic do you think those instructions were? Would you have believed the wall would fall down just from walking around it and shouting?
- Archaeologists believe they have found Jericho and that the walls of the city fell outward in a circle. What does that tell us about the validity of this story?
- How does this story relate to the 4th commandment?
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