Caleb
What tribe was Caleb from?
What is the tribe of Judah
What book of the Bible describes the dividing of the land among the tribes?
What is the book of Joshua
How many spies were sent to explore Canaan?
What is 12
Who was Joshua’s mentor and predecessor?
Who is Moses
What quality of God allows us to trust His promises?
What is God’s faithfulness
At what age did Caleb first spy out the land of Canaan?
What is 40
What was the land flowing with, according to God’s promise?
What is milk and honey
How many brought back a faithful, positive report?
What is 2 (Caleb and Joshua)
Who divided the land as God commanded?
Who is Joshua
Caleb received God’s promise after how many years?
What is 45 years
What mountain did Caleb request as his inheritance?
What is Hebron
Which tribe received no specific land because “the Lord was their inheritance”?
Who were the Levites
What punishment did God give Israel for believing the negative report?
What is 40 years of wandering in the wilderness
Q: Who did Joshua grant the land of Hebron to?
Who is Caleb
Which book says, “The Lord gave Israel all the land He had sworn”?
What is Joshua
Caleb was 85 when he claimed Hebron. Based on the timeline of the wilderness wandering, calculate how many years he lived after the wilderness period ended before asking for his inheritance.
What is 5 years?
(45 years had passed since spying: 40 wandering + 5 years of conquest)
What group of giants lived in the region Caleb asked for?
Who were the Anakim
Of the 12 spies, only two gave a positive report. Besides Caleb and Joshua, what is significant about their tribal origins compared to the other 10 spies?
What is they were from Judah and Ephraim the two leading tribes that later formed the core of the southern and northern kingdoms
Why did Joshua honor Caleb’s request for inheritance?
What is "God promised it due to Caleb’s faithfulness"
What does Caleb’s story teach about waiting?
What is God fulfills His promises in His time?
Caleb is repeatedly described as one who “wholly followed the Lord.” Besides Joshua 14, name two other books of the Bible that use this same phrase about Caleb. (Found in 2 books before Joshua)
What are Numbers and Deuteronomy? (Numbers 14:24; Deuteronomy 1:36)
Hebron, the land Caleb received, was originally called by what name, and after which famous Anakim figure was it named?
What is Kiriath-Arba, named after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim
The negative spies described the land as “devouring its inhabitants.” This phrase appears only twice in the Bible. Where is the other place it appears? (Found in the book before Daniel)
What is Ezekiel 36:13? (where God rebukes the land metaphorically)
Joshua and Caleb were the only two above age 20 who survived the wilderness. According to Numbers, name the specific oath God swore about the rest of that generation? (Found in the 4th book)
What is: that none of the men who saw God’s signs in Egypt and the wilderness and still rebelled would enter the Promised Land? (Numbers 14:22–23)
God’s promise to Caleb traces back to Abraham. What specific covenant verse connects Abraham’s descendants to possessing Hebron’s region?
(Found in the book that means beginning)
What is Genesis 15:18–21? (the land of the Amorites, which includes Hebron)