9. What did they take up with them? Were there many of them? 10. To what place did they first come? Where was that? Which side of Jordan is meant here by beyond Jor dan? How did they mourn at the floor of Atad? How many days? 11. Who noticed their mourning there? What did the Canaanites say? What was the name of that place therefore called? What is meant by Abel-misraim? Why were they called Egyptians ? 12. Did Jacob's sons obey their father's command? 13. In what place in the land of Canaan did they bury him? How came this burying place into the possession of the family? Who was first buried there? Who were buried there besides? Chap. xlix. 31. What does Christ say of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Matt. xxii. 31, 32? Then, although the dust of these faithful men rests in the cave in the land of Canaan, where are their souls? What does Christ promise to all believers in Matt. viij. 11? LESSON XIX. Genesis, Chap. 1. verses 14-26. Joseph's treatment of his Brethren, after his Father's Death. 14. After Jacob's burial where did Joseph go? Who returned with him? 15. When Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, what did they say? What is the meaning of peradventure? What is it to requite evil? What evil had the brethren of Joseph done to him? Why did they judge that he would now revenge himself? How are men naturally disposed to treat those who have injured them? What different course does the spirit of God teach in Rom. xii. 21? 16. What did Joseph's brethren do? Whose words did they send to Joseph ? Did they suppose Joseph would regard the words of their father? 17. What did they say their father had bidden them say to Joseph? What did they request of Joseph ? What did they acknowledge they had done to him? What is written in Prov. xxviii. 13?, Whose servants did Joseph's brethren call themselves, as a reason why he should forgive them? How was Joseph affected when they spake thus to him? What trait of character do you observe here, and in other parts of Joseph's history? 18. What did Joseph's brethren do, after they had sent the message to him? What did they say they were? 19. What did Joseph say to comfort them? What question did he ask them? What did he mean by asking "Am I in the place of God?" Heb. x. 30? Why may we not undertake to avenge ourselves when we are injured? 20. What did Joseph say his brethren had thought? For what end did God make use of their evil designs? How were much people saved alive by the cruelty of Joseph's brethren towards him? Does this excuse their conduct? What is written in Ps. lxxvi. 10? 21. What did Joseph again bid them not to do? What did he say he would do for them? How did Joseph behave to them? Was this conduct such as you approve? Is this more noble than to revenge ones self? How did he himself pray for those who were crucify. ing him? Luke xxiii. 34. 22. Where did Joseph and his father's house continue to dwell? How long did Joseph live? How long did he live after his father died? 23. What generation of Ephraim's children did Joseph live to see? What other children were brought up upon Joseph's knees? What blessing is promised to the man that feareth the Lord in Ps. cxxviii. 6? 24. What did Joseph at last say to his brethren? What did he say God would surely do? Out of what land would God bring them? Into what land would he take them? What had the Lord foretold to Abraham, concerning the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt, and their return to Canaan? See Gen. xv. 13-16. How did Joseph know that God would surely visit them? 25. Of whom did Joseph take an oath ? What was it to take an oath of them? What makes it often necessary for men to swear one to another, that confidence may be placed in them? In whose faithfulness and truth may we always con fide, without fear of deceit or forgetfulness? What did Joseph require the children of Israel to promise on oath? When should they carry up his bones from Egypt to Canaan? Would those men, to whom he then spake, be alive at that time? For whom, and in whose name, did they take the oath? What is written concerning this circumstance in Heb. xi. 22 ? Why did Joseph wish his bones to be carried out of Egypt into Canaan? 26. How old was Joseph when he died? What was done to his body? When God afterwards visited the children of Israel, and brought them out of Egypt, did they remember their promise to Joseph? Ex. xiii. 19? Where were the bones of Joseph buried? Josh. xxiv. 32? What is written in Acts vii. 15, 16, of the death and burial of others of Jacob's family? When you read that one generation after another passes away, and is laid in the dust, of what should it admonish you? In a few years, where shall these our bodies be, which are now active and strong? How should this teach us to regard all earthly things? Upon what then should we place our hope and affec tions? LESSON XXXI. Exodus, Chap. i. verses 1-14, 22. Bondage of Israel in Egypt. What is the title of this book? What is meant by the word Exodus ? 1. Whose names are recorded in this chapter? Who are meant by the children of Israel? 2, 3, 4. What were the names of Israel's eleven sons, who came with their households into Egypt? 5. How many souls were there in the family of Jacob? Was Joseph included in this number? 6. What became of Joseph and his breth rea, and all that generation? |