Biblical Cosmology: Joshua Study Guide

Observe: (Make a list or mark each term with a designated symbol)

Who, what, when, where, why, how?

Repeated words or phrases

Verbs, tenses, cause and effect and more

Look up the definitions of certain words in Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament)

Draw what is being depicted based on the scripture

Interpret:

What is the context for this passage (culture, audience, situation etc.)?

Are you assuming anything about the text that’s not explicitly stated or shown in the text?

What passages of scripture relate to this scripture? Is the same thing said or explained clearly elsewhere in the Bible?

2 Corinthians 13:1 “This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

John 8:17

“It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.”

Application:

Is there a part of me that is not trusting or believing the Word?

What was the application intended for the original audience?

How can you apply what you’ve learned to your life?

Scripture:

Joshua 2:11

And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

Joshua 10:11

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

Joshua 10:12-13:

12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.