When the children of Israel crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, they found it full of foes. Joshua, the courageous warrior, won the land for the Israelites.
Locate the scene of many of his mighty conquests--Jericho, 287 H.T.; Ai, also known as Hai, 294 H.T.; Gibeon, 300 H.T.; Jerusalem, 305 H.T.
Where was Gilgal, the place of Joshua's camp? 300 H.T.
From what section of the land did the Moabites come who warred against the Israelites in the time of the judge Ehud? 315 H.T.
This is the same Moab to which the family of Naomi and Elimelech went to escape famine in their native city of Bethlehem (35 T.J.), which was six miles south of Jerusalem.
By what physical formation were the people of Bethlehem able to see that there was food in the land of Moab? 487 T.J.
Locate the land of the Midianites, the Arab wanderers who oppressed Israel in the time of Gideon. 319 H.T.
(This is said to be the same country whither Moses fled when he killed the Egyptian, 141 H.T.)
By noting the three great cities of Philistia, Ashdod, Askelon, and Gath, give the general location of the land of the Philistines, the people so long at enmity with the Israelites (342,360,375 H.T.) from whose hosts came the giant Goliath (386 H.T.) 493 H.T.
Locate the country of Gilead where at Jabesh Saul's first battle was fought. 359 H.T.
(Note how the people of Jabesh-gilead later remembered Saul's help. 359,381,494 H.T.)
Where was the town of Gath, the home of the giant Goliath? 386, 497 H.T.
(Note that later King Uzziah broke down the walls of Gath. 287, 288 T.J.)
Locate the land belonging to the tribe of Judah on whose hills David lived as a boy and tended sheep. 382 H.T.
Describe the location of the city of Jerusalem, the capital of the kingdom of David and Solomon. Give its position with respect to the Dead Sea, the Mediterranean, Dan, and Beer-sheba. 461 H.T.
Did the Queen of Sheba come far to visit Solomon? Trace what was probably her route. Note how far Solomon's fame had spread. 487, 498 H.T.
Locate Ezion-geber, the town on the Red Sea from which Solomon sent his ships to trade in Egypt and Arabia. 482, 498 H. T.
(Note that the same people who were formerly in bitter bondage in Egypt were trading on equal terms with that nation. 498 H.T.).