THE CHILD'S CATECHISM OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. DEUTERONOMY, JOSHUA AND JUDGES. VOL. II. PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852, by ALEXANDER W. MITCHELL, M. D. In the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Stereotyped by SLOTE & MOONEY, Philadelphia. THE CHILD'S CATECHISM OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. PART III. QUESTION 1. Where was Moses when he repeated the law to the people of Israel? ANSWER. In the plains of Moab. Q. 2. Why did Moses repeat the law to the people? A. To impress it on the minds of such as had neglected it, and of the young who had been born since its first delivery at Mount Sinai. Q. 3. When was this rehearsal of the law begun? A. On the first day of the eleventh month, of the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. Q. 4. To whom did Moses commit the keeping of the law after he had written it in a book? A. To the priests, and the elders of Israel. Q. 5. Where did he command the book of the law to be kept? A. In the side of the ark of the covenant. Q. 6. How often was it to be read in the hearing of the people? A. Every seven years, in the year of release, at the feast of tabernacles. Q. 7. What did Moses tell the people would be the reward of their obedience to God? A. Great national prosperity and happiness. Q. 8. What did he predict as the consequences of their disobedience? A. They should become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all nations. Q. 9. Has not this prediction been literally fulfilled in the history of the Jews? A. It has been fulfilled. Q. 10. What favour did the Lord grant Moses before he died? A. He took him up to the top of Mount Pisgah, and showed him the promised land. Q. 11. Why did the Lord not permit Moses to enter the promised land? A. Because of his sin when he smote the rock in the wilderness of Zin.. Q. 12. Where did Moses die? A. In the land of Moab. Q. 13. By whom, and where was he buried? A. The Lord buried him, "in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day." Q. 14. How old was Moses when he died? |