Questions on the Book of Numbers

 •  4 min. read  •  grade level: 4
Listen from:
Chapter 1
1. Why did the Lord tell Moses to number the people.
2. How many fighting men were there in Israel?
3. Why were the Levites not numbered with the men of war?
Chapter 2
1. Describe the order in which they were to encamp.
Chapter 3
1. Instead of whom were the Levites given to the Lord?
2. Name the three families of Levites.
3. What did Moses do with the firstborn who were more than the Levites?
Chapter 4
1. What was the service of the Kohathites?
2. What was the service of the Gershonites?
3. What was the service of the Merarites?
Chapter 5
1. Where was every unclean person to be put?
Chapter 6
1. What was the law of the Nazarite?
2. How was his Nazariteship restored if it were lost?
3. What was he to do when the days of his separation were over?
Chapter 7
1. When the Tabernacle was set up, what did the princes do?
2. Who offered most?
3. From whence did the Lord speak to Moses?
Chapter 8
1. How were the Levites cleansed?
2. What happened when the tabernacle was set up?
Chapter 9
1. How did they know when to travel and when to rest?
Chapter 10
1. What were the silver trumpets for?
2. Who used them?
3. Who went before the children of Israel?
Chapter 11
1. Why did the Lord send fire among the people?
2. In what did Moses show failure at this time
3. How did the Lord answer him?
4. How did the Lord punish the people?
Chapter 12
1. Relate the solemn story of Miriam's
Chapter 13
1. What were the spies sent for?
2. How long were they in the land of Canaan?
Chapter 14
1. What evil thing did the people propose to do?
2. What was the judgment of the Lord in consequence?
3. Name the ten times in which they had tempted the Lord from Egypt to this time.
4. What effect had the Lord's judgment on the people?
Chapter 15
1. How did the Lord show that He was as willing as ever to receive all who carne to Him?
2. What difference were they to make between a person who sinned from ignorance and one who knew God's commandment and broke it?
3. How did the Lord show that He meant His people to have heavenly ways?
Chapter 16
1. What was the sin of Korah?
2. How did Moses prove him and his company?
3. How did the children of Israel sin yet more against the Lord?
4. Why did Aaron stand between the dead and the living?
Chapter 17
1. What was the meaning of what the Lord told Moses to do?
Chapter 18
1. What were the tithes?
Chapter 19
1. What was the offering of the red heifer for?
Chapter 20
1. Relate the sorrowful story of Meribah.
2. Who was made priest instead of Aaron?
Chapter 21
1. Why were fiery serpents sent?
2. Why did a Look at the brazen serpent make them live?
3. Why did the people sing?
4. How did Sihon and Og treat Israel?
Chapter 22
1. What was Balaam's sin?
Chapter 23
1. How did God make the wicked prophet do His will?
Chapter 24
1. To whom was the prophecy of Balaam a message?
Chapter 25
1. Why was the Lord angry with Israel?
2. Why did God commend what Phinehas?
Chapter 26
1. Why were the children of Israel numbered again?
2. What solemn word of. the Lord was fulfilled?
Chapter 27
1. What 'request did the, daughters of Zelophehad make?
2. What sort of person did the Lord choose to succeed Moses?
Chapter 28
1. How long was the burnt-offering to burn upon the altar?
Chapter 29
1. Name the set days on which they were to bring offerings.
Chapter 30
What was the law concerning vows?
Chapter 31
1. Whom did Moses wish to avenge of Midian?
2. Why was the Lord so wroth against Midian?
3. How many of the Israelites were killed in battle?
Chapter 32
1. What did the children of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh do?
2. Why did Moses object to it?
3. What did they gain, and what did they lose by it
Chapter 33
1. What does this account of their journeyings teach us?
Chapter 34
1. Who set the bounds of their inhabitations?
2. Who were to divide the land?
Chapter 35
1. For what were the cities of refuge?
2. Why must they not shed blood in their and?
Chapter 36
1. What law preserved the inheritance to each tribe?
2. Where were these commandments given to Moses?