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Which river is named as the far boundary?\", opts:[\"The Euphrates\",\"The Nile\",\"The Tigris\",\"The Jordan\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 1:4\", fact:\"\u201cEven unto the great river, the river Euphrates ... and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun.\u201d The great sea is the Mediterranean.\"},\n{q:\"What is Joshua told to do with the book of the law, day and night?\", opts:[\"Meditate therein\",\"Read it aloud to the elders\",\"Copy it out by hand\",\"Carry it inside the ark\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 1:8\", fact:\"\u201cThis book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night.\u201d The promise attached is good success \u2014 tied to the book, not to the sword.\"},\n{q:\"From which place did Joshua send the two spies to Jericho?\", opts:[\"Shittim\",\"Gilgal\",\"Shiloh\",\"Mount Ebal\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 2:1\", fact:\"\u201cJoshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly.\u201d Gilgal and Shiloh both come later in the book; the camp was still east of the Jordan.\"},\n{q:\"Rahab hid the two spies on her roof. Under what?\", opts:[\"Stalks of flax\",\"Sheaves of barley\",\"Heaps of straw\",\"Baskets of figs\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 2:6\", fact:\"\u201cHid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.\u201d Flax was spread on flat roofs to dry \u2014 a working detail, not a hiding place anyone would plan.\"},\n{q:\"What was Rahab told to bind in her window?\", opts:[\"A line of scarlet thread\",\"A branch of hyssop\",\"A strip of blue cloth\",\"A lamp burning all night\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 2:18\", fact:\"\u201cThou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by.\u201d It is the same rope she used to lower them.\"},\n{q:\"After escaping Jericho, how long did the spies hide in the mountain?\", opts:[\"Three days\",\"One night\",\"Seven days\",\"Forty days\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 2:22\", fact:\"\u201cThey went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned.\u201d\"},\n{q:\"How far behind the ark were the people told to stay as they crossed the Jordan?\", opts:[\"About two thousand cubits\",\"About a thousand paces\",\"A full day's journey\",\"Within arm's reach\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 3:4\", fact:\"\u201cThere shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure ... for ye have not passed this way heretofore.\u201d\"},\n{q:\"Joshua 3:15 adds a detail that makes the crossing much harder than it sounds. What?\", opts:[\"Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest\",\"The crossing was made at night\",\"A storm had broken over the valley\",\"The fords had been destroyed by the Canaanites\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 3:15\", fact:\"They reached the river at the widest and fastest point of its year, not at a convenient shallow ford.\"},\n{q:\"Where did the dammed-up water of the Jordan pile up?\", opts:[\"Very far away, by the city Adam, beside Zaretan\",\"Directly in front of the priests\",\"At the mouth of the sea of Galilee\",\"At the foot of mount Hermon\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 3:16\", fact:\"\u201cThe waters ... stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan.\u201d Downstream, the water toward the salt sea simply failed and was cut off.\"},\n{q:\"Besides the twelve stones carried out to Gilgal, where did Joshua set up another twelve?\", opts:[\"In the midst of Jordan, where the priests' feet had stood\",\"On the walls of Jericho\",\"At the top of mount Ebal\",\"Around the altar at Shiloh\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 4:9\", fact:\"\u201cIn the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.\u201d Two memorials \u2014 one you can visit, one the river covers over again.\"},\n{q:\"On what date did Israel come up out of the Jordan?\", opts:[\"The tenth day of the first month\",\"The first day of the seventh month\",\"The fourteenth day of the second month\",\"The day after the passover\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 4:19\", fact:\"\u201cThe people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal.\u201d Four days later they kept the passover there.\"},\n{q:\"What did Joshua make, in order to circumcise Israel at Gilgal?\", opts:[\"Sharp knives\",\"A bronze blade\",\"An altar of unhewn stone\",\"Flint-tipped spears\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 5:3\", fact:\"\u201cJoshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.\u201d A whole army is put out of action by choice, with Jericho in plain sight.\"},\n{q:\"Why is the first camp in the land named Gilgal?\", opts:[\"Because God said, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you\",\"Because the twelve stones were rolled there\",\"Because the Jordan rolled back\",\"Because the walls of Jericho rolled down\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 5:9\", fact:\"\u201cWherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.\u201d The name sounds like the Hebrew word for rolling.\"},\n{q:\"When did the manna stop?\", opts:[\"The morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land\",\"The day Moses died\",\"The day they crossed the Jordan\",\"The day Jericho fell\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 5:12\", fact:\"Forty years of bread from heaven ends the morning after ordinary food is available. Nothing is announced; it simply does not fall again.\"},\n{q:\"A man with a drawn sword meets Joshua near Jericho. Who does he say he is?\", opts:[\"Captain of the host of the LORD\",\"An angel sent from Sinai\",\"A prince of the city of Jericho\",\"The spirit of Moses\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 5:14\", fact:\"Asked whose side he is on, he answers neither: \u201cNay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come.\u201d Joshua falls on his face, and is told to take off his shoe.\"},\n{q:\"How many priests and trumpets went before the ark at Jericho?\", opts:[\"Seven priests with seven trumpets of rams' horns\",\"Twelve priests with twelve silver trumpets\",\"Two priests with two horns\",\"Forty priests with cymbals\"], correct:0, ref:\"Joshua 6:4\", fact:\"Seven priests, seven trumpets, and on the seventh day seven circuits of the city. 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The second twelve are the land office &mdash; who got which hills, which towns went to the Levites, where the six cities of refuge sat, and which tribes could not clear their own territory. Then the book closes at Shechem with an old man asking an entire nation to choose out loud who they will serve, and answering for his own household first. Most people know the trumpets and the walls and almost nothing after chapter six, which is where the strangest details actually live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did the sun really stand still in Joshua 10?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshua 10:12-14 is one of the most argued-over passages in the Old Testament. The text says Joshua spoke in the sight of Israel &mdash; &#8220;Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon&#8221; &mdash; and that the sun &#8220;hasted not to go down about a whole day.&#8221; What usually gets missed is that the passage openly cites an outside source: &#8220;Is not this written in the book of Jasher?&#8221; Jasher is quoted once more, in 2 Samuel 1:18, and no copy of it survives, so Joshua is quoting a book nobody can check. Readings range from a literal lengthening of the day, to a prayer answered by the hailstorm two verses earlier that broke the heat and the enemy together, to an ancient victory poem quoted as a poem. The line the chapter itself lands on is not astronomical at all: &#8220;there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who was Rahab in the book of Joshua?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahab lived in the wall of Jericho, and the text calls her a harlot without softening it. When two Israelite spies came into the city she brought them up to the roof and hid them under stalks of flax laid out to dry, sent the search party off in the wrong direction, and then asked for her family&#8217;s lives. The agreed sign was a line of scarlet thread tied in her window &mdash; the same rope she had used to lower the two men down the outside of the wall. When the city fell, Joshua 6:25 says Joshua saved her and her whole father&#8217;s household alive, &#8220;and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day.&#8221; She is one of only two women named in the roll of faith in Hebrews 11, James 2:25 holds her up as an example, and Matthew 1:5 places her in the family line that runs down to Jesus. The only named survivor of Jericho is the one person in the story nobody would have picked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why does the book of Joshua spend so long on boundaries and city lists?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapters 13 through 21 are essentially a property registry, and most readers skim them. They are there because the book is making an argument: every promise made back at the river gets cashed out in specific ground &mdash; this spring, this ridge, this town with its suburbs. The lists also catch things the battle story never would. Caleb turns up at eighty-five and asks for the hill country with the giants still living on it. His daughter Achsah, handed a dry southern field, rides out to ask her father for water as well and is given both the upper springs and the nether springs. The tribe of Levi receives forty-eight scattered cities and no territory at all, because &#8220;the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance.&#8221; Judah &#8220;could not drive out&#8221; the Jebusites from Jerusalem, recorded plainly, with no spin on it. And the whole section is signed off in Joshua 21:45 with the line the paperwork exists to earn: &#8220;There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do you study for a Bible quiz on the book of Joshua?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Teams that do well on Joshua tend to treat it as two different books, because the questions come out differently from each half. 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