Moses Talks to the People—Deuteronomy 1:1–46
Topics: Covenant, Faithfulness, Miracles, Power, Remembering, Sovereignty
Open It
1. What kinds of mementos do you keep to remember special events?
2. What pictures do you hold in your wallet?
3. *If you wanted people to remember you by one thing, what would it be?
Explore It
1. *When did Moses remind the Israelites about what God had commanded them? (1:1–5)
2. What did the Lord say to the Israelites at Horeb? (1:6–8)
3. What problem did Moses present to the Lord? (1:9–15)
4. How were the judges told to settle disputes? (1:16–18)
5. Where were the Israelites told to go take the land? (1:19–21)
6. Who was sent into the land to spy it out? (1:22–25)
7. *How did the Israelites grumble against the Lord? (1:26–28)
8. *What did Moses say to remind Israel of God’s presence? (1:29–31)
9. How did Moses say Israel did not trust God? (1:32–33)
10. What did God say when Israel rebelled against Him? (1:34–37)
11. Whom did God promise to allow into the land? (1:38–40)
12. What did Israel do after God told them not to go up into the hill country? (1:41–42)
13. What happened to Israel after not listening to God? (1:43–44)
14. To whom did Israel return after getting beaten back to Hormah? (1:45–46)
Get It
1. *How do we so quickly forget to follow God when He always remembers us?
2. What are the dangers of taking problems into our own hands?
3. How is it important to have many leaders in working with large crowds?
4. What moves God to be faithful to us even when we are not faithful to Him?
5. *How can your memory of God serve you to be obedient to Him?
6. What are things in this society that people tend to trust?
7. What does this passage teach you about trusting God?
8. In what ways is it difficult to trust God?
Apply It
1. *How can you remember to walk with God this week in everything you do?
2. What specific need do you want to entrust to God in prayer today?
Stuck in the Wilderness—Deuteronomy 2:1–37
Topics: Direction, Giving Up, Suffering, Victory, War, Weaknesses
Open It
1. What is your greatest victory in life so far?
2. What is the difference between winners and quitters?
3. *What does it feel like when you’re lost and there’s no one to give you directions?
Explore It
1. *What new direction did the Israelites take? (2:1)
2. What did the Lord say about passing through the new territory? (2:2–6)
3. What did the Israelites lack during their forty-year journey? (2:7)
4. Where did the people of God travel after passing Seir? (2:8)
5. What did God say about harassing the Moabites? (2:9–12)
6. What had happened to the generation of men who left Kadesh Barnea? (2:13–16)
7. How were the Israelites told to pass by the region of Moab? (2:17–23)
8. *What directions did God give Israel about passing through Heshbon? (2:24–29)
9. How did Sihon respond to Moses’ request? (2:30)
10. *How did the Lord direct the Israelites into battle? (2:31–33)
11. What did Israel gain with the Lord on their side? (2:34–36)
12. How did Israel keep the Lord’s commands? (2:37)
Get It
1. What is the relationship between following instructions and winning?
2. *What makes it difficult to take directions from others?
3. *How does God give us direction in our lives?
4. In what ways is it difficult to direct a large, stubborn group of people?
5. How would you have felt if you were Moses trying to get Israel to follow the Lord?
6. What happens when we allow God to fight our battles?
7. What happens to people in our society who can’t follow directions?
8. If someone is willing to follow directions, what might he or she have to give us?
Apply It
1. *What is a concrete way you can follow the Lord’s direction in your life today?
2. What is an area of your life that you would like the Lord to redirect?
Dividing the Land—Deuteronomy 3:1–29
Topics: Anger, Community, Divisions, Fear, Opposition, War
Open It
1. What is it like arriving at the airport and forgetting your tickets?
2. *What do you think of when you see war-torn countries on television?
3. What struggles do refugees of war face?
Explore It
1. *Who met the Israelites to do battle against them? (3:1)
2. What did the Lord say to Moses about fighting the king of Bashan? (3:2)
3. *What happened in the battle against Og? (3:3–7)
4. *What land did the Israelites take over after the battle? (3:8–11)
5. What land did Moses give to the Reubenites and Gadites? (3:12)
6. What land did Manasseh receive? (3:13)
7. Who was Jair? (3:14)
8. What land did Makir receive? (3:15)
9. What were the territories received by the Reubenites and Gadites? (3:16–17)
10. What did the Lord command the men of Israel to do? (3:18)
11. Where did the women and children stay? (3:19–20)
12. What did Moses command Joshua? (3:21–22)
13. How did Moses plead with the Lord? (3:23–25)
14. How did the Lord respond to Moses’ request? (3:26–27)
15. How did God tell Moses to support Joshua? (3:28–29)
Get It
1. *How was it important for the Israelites to follow God’s specific battle instructions?
2. What types of victories do we receive when we persevere through personal battles?
3. How would you have felt if you were Moses looking into the land you couldn’t enter?
4. What does this passage have to say about encouraging emerging leaders?
5. *What types of fears do we face in personal battles?
6. How do these verses encourage you not to fear struggles?
7. What are the positive outcomes we experience during difficult times?
Apply It
1. In what area of your life do you need God’s strength this week?
2. *How can you deal with your personal battles in a positive way?
Obedience to God—Deuteronomy 4:1–43
Topics: Blessing, Character, Instructions, Law, Obedience, Remembering
Open It
1. How much time have you spent in traffic court?
2. *How do you benefit when other people obey the laws of our country?
3. What nations are good examples of lawlessness?
Explore It
1. *What did Moses say to Israel about God’s laws? (4:1–2)
2. What happened at Baal Peor? (4:3–4)
3. *What would other nations say about Israel if Israel followed God’s laws? (4:5–8)
4. *How was Israel to be careful in following God’s laws? (4:9)
5. What happened when Israel stood before the Lord at Horeb? (4:10–14)
6. How was Israel commanded to carefully watch themselves? (4:15–20)
7. What happened when the Lord was angry with Moses? (4:21–22)
8. For what reasons were the Israelites told not to forget their covenant with God? (4:23–28)
9. What would happen if Israel would seek God? (4:29–31)
10. What were the Israelites told to ask about the former days? (4:32–38)
11. What was Israel told to acknowledge? (4:39–40)
12. What was the purpose of the three cities Moses set aside? (4:41–43)
Get It
1. *What blessings come with keeping God’s laws?
2. What are the consequences for those who reject God’s commands?
3. *How are God’s laws and living a meaningful life related?
4. What are ways that we are not careful about obeying the Word of God?
5. What consequence did Moses receive for not honoring God?
6. How do you think God feels when we don’t want to obey Him?
7. What does this passage teach you about seeking God?
8. To what degree is seeking God and obeying His Word related?
Apply It
1. *What is a specific Bible verse that you would like to use to encourage others to honor God?
2. What is one command of God’s that you can highlight or memorize this week?
Obedience Commanded—Deuteronomy 4:44–5:33
Topics: Commands, Consequences, Glory, Idolatry, Law, Listening, Obedience, Worship
Open It
1. *What few Bible movies have been made by Hollywood?
2. What does it mean to be a good and moral person?
3. How do some people try to figure out their future through astrology?
Explore It
1. *What did Moses set before the Israelites? (4:44–45)
2. Where did Moses defeat Sihon? (4:46)
3. What land did the Israelites take possession of? (4:47–49)
4. *What did Moses say about the law to the Israelites? (5:1–4)
5. What did the Lord say to the Israelites? (5:5–10)
6. *What other laws did the Lord give the Israelites? (5:11–15)
7. What did the Lord tell the people about their relationship with their parents? (5:16)
8. What did God say about murder? (5:17)
9. What were the people told about committing adultery? (5:18)
10. What did the Lord command the Israelites concerning stealing? (5:19)
11. How are neighbors told to be treated? (5:20)
12. What were the Israelites commanded not to covet? (5:21)
13. Who gave the commandments to Moses? (5:22)
14. What did the Israelites say to Moses? (5:23–27)
15. What was God’s response to Moses? (5:28–33)
Get It
1. What is important about the Ten Commandments?
2. *How might our country be different if people followed God’s laws?
3. What is the passage telling us about listening to God?
4. *What makes people responsive to some of God’s laws but not all of them?
5. How does this passage challenge you to take God’s laws more seriously?
6. How do some people think having good morals will get them to heaven?
7. What does this Scripture tell us about the use of our tongue?
8. How does our relationship with God affect our relationship with others?
Apply It
1. *What is a creative way you can take God’s law to heart this week?
2. What concrete way will help you to obey the Ten Commandments?
Love the Lord Your God—Deuteronomy 6:1–25
Topics: Children, Commitment, Disobedience, God, Home, Love, Obedience, Responsibility
Open It
1. What is the most important thing you have learned from your parents?
2. How have you seen God act in a powerful way?
3. *What do you enjoy most about children?
Explore It
1. What did God direct Moses to teach to the Israelites? (6:1)
2. *What was a very important reason for the Israelites to know God’s laws? (6:2)
3. With what was the Promised Land filled? (6:3)
4. What was Israel commanded to hear? (6:4)
5. How was Israel told to love the Lord? (6:5)
6. Where are the commandments of the Lord to be? (6:6)
7. *How are parents to teach their children God’s Word? (6:7)
8. Where is God’s Word to be placed? (6:8–9)
9. What was Israel told to remember when the Lord brings them into the land? (6:10–12)
10. How was Israel commanded to fear God? (6:13)
11. What is the consequence for following other gods? (6:14–15)
12. Where did the Israelites test the Lord? (6:16)
13. For what reason are the Israelites told to keep the commands of God? (6:17–19)
14. *How are the Israelites told to respond when their children ask about God’s law? (6:20–23)
15. What does the Lord say are the benefits of keeping His law? (6:24–25)
Get It
1. How do children view God differently from adults?
2. What does it mean to live with child-like faith?
3. *What makes it possible for children to learn about God from their parents?
4. How does this passage explain the benefits of following God?
5. What does God promise when we obey His commands?
6. What makes it easier to follow gods other than the God of Israel?
7. *What can children teach older people about honoring God?
Apply It
1. *What is practical way you can teach you children about God today?
2. How can you thank God this week for how far He has brought you in your faith?
Driving Out the Nations—Deuteronomy 7:1–26
Topics: Blessing, Change, Faithfulness, Holy, Power, Promises, Religion
Open It
1. What do you find most fascinating about ancient empires?
2. *What “gods” are worshiped in our culture today?
3. How do some people worship things without even realizing it?
Explore It
1. What did God command the Israelites to do when He drove out the nations? (7:1–2)
2. For what reason are the Israelites told not to intermarry? (7:3–4)
3. *What are the people told to do with the altars of idols? (7:5)
4. How is Israel the treasured possession of God? (7:6)
5. What was the motive of God to choose Israel over other nations? (7:7–8)
6. How faithful is God? (7:9–10)
7. To what was Israel told to pay special attention? (7:11–12)
8. How would Israel be blessed by obeying God? (7:13–15)
9. *How would other gods hurt Israel’s relationship with God? (7:16)
10. What fearful question do the people of Israel ask? (7:17)
11. How was Israel told not to fear the other nations? (7:18–20)
12. What characteristics of God are described in this passage? (7:21)
13. How was Israel promised by God to drive out the other nations? (7:22–24)
14. *What was Israel told to do with the pagan gods? (7:25–26)
Get It
1. What do you think others think of when they hear the word idol?
2. *What is the danger of Christians’ following idols?
3. In what ways do people sometimes make idols out of other people?
4. *How do impersonal idols ruin a personal relationship with God?
5. What type of statement did God make by asking for the complete destruction of all idols?
6. How does the warning God gave Israel about idols relate to us today?
7. How is God able to drive out the idols in a person’s life?
Apply It
1. *What is an idol you need to forsake in order to follow God faithfully?
2. How can you bolster your confidence in the great and awesome power of God?
Do Not Forget the Lord—Deuteronomy 8:1–9:6
Topics: Abandon, Accountability, Evil, Forget, Forsake, Honesty, Mercy, Zeal
Open It
1. Who are some of the wealthiest people in the world today?
2. What is the important accomplishment you have achieved?
3. *What is one thing you tend to be forgetful about?
Explore It
1. *How were God’s people told to remember the commands of God? (8:1–2)
2. How did the Lord humble the Israelites? (8:3–4)
3. How does God discipline us? (8:5)
4. Why did God want Israel to remember His commands? (8:6–9)
5. *How was Israel told not to forget God? (8:10–14)
6. How did the Lord provide for Israel in the desert? (8:15–16)
7. *What was Israel commanded to remember about God? (8:17–20)
8. How strong were the nations Israel was going to fight against? (9:1)
9. What were the physical characteristics of the Israelites’ opponents? (9:2)
10. How would the Lord go before the enemies of Israel? (9:3)
11. What was Israel told not to say to itself? (9:4)
12. What was the reason Israel was taking possession of the land? (9:5)
13. How did God describe the people of Israel? (9:6)
Get It
1. What is the relationship between forgetfulness and responsibility?
2. How do you feel when you have to keep reminding people to do things?
3. How do you think God feels when He keeps reminding us not to forget Him?
4. *What does this section of Scripture teach you about remembering God?
5. How can wealth distract us from God?
6. How can we remember that God is the ultimate provider of everything we have?
7. What can we humbly give to God for all the blessings He gives us?
8. *How are we inclined to take credit for the things God does for us?
Apply It
1. *What is a practical way you can remember God in all you do this week?
2. What is a clear way you can integrate God’s commands into your life today?
The Golden Calf—Deuteronomy 9:7–29
Topics: Anger, Idolatry, Prayer, Punishment, Stubbornness, Testing, Unfaithfulness
Open It
1. What is it about some people that prevents them from keeping a promise?
2. How do you feel when you do something kind for someone and he or she doesn’t say thank you?
3. *If you could destroy one evil in this world, what would it be?
Explore It
1. *What does Moses say about Israel’s rebellion against God? (9:7)
2. Where did Israel arouse the Lord’s wrath? (9:8)
3. How long was Moses up on the mountain? (9:9)
4. What was on the tablets the Lord gave Moses? (9:10)
5. What were the tablets given to Moses called? (9:11)
6. What did the Lord say to Moses? (9:12)
7. *How did the Lord describe the stubbornness of the people of Israel? (9:13)
8. What did God want Moses to do? (9:14)
9. What did Moses have in his hands when he went down the mountain? (9:15)
10. What had the Israelites made while Moses was gone? (9:16)
11. What did Moses do after he broke the tablets? (9:17–19)
12. How did Moses intervene on behalf of Aaron? (9:20)
13. What did Moses do with the golden calf? (9:21)
14. Where else did the people of Israel make the Lord angry? (9:22–23)
15. *How did Moses plead for Israel’s rebellious ways? (9:24–29)
Get It
1. *What do you consider to be the root of rebellion?
2. What are possible reasons the Israelites were so rebellious against God?
3. How can prayer make a difference in someone else’s life?
4. If you were Moses, how might you have become sick and tired of the Israelites?
5. How should we treat people who never cooperate?
6. What does this passage teach us about the patience of God?
7. *In what ways are we stubborn against God?
8. What keeps God from destroying those who rebel against Him?
Apply It
1. *What is an area of rebellion in your life that you need to confess to God today?
2. Who is someone who has turned away from God that you can encourage to return to the Lord?
Tablets like the First Ones—Deuteronomy 10:1–22
Topics: Commands, Expectations, Law, Praise, Promises, Work
Open It
1. *What bothers you most when someone is not listening to you?
2. What types of risks are involved in dreaming big dreams?
3. If you were walking alone at night, whom would you want alongside you?
Explore It
1. What did the Lord tell Moses to chisel out? (10:1)
2. What did God say He would write on the tablets? (10:2)
3. Where did Moses go after he made the ark? (10:3)
4. What did God put on the tablets? (10:4)
5. Where did Moses put the tablets when he came down the mountain? (10:5)
6. Where was Aaron buried? (10:6)
7. What is the reason the Levites have no inheritance? (10:7–9)
8. *Who listened to Moses when he was on the mountain? (10:10)
9. What did God tell Moses to do? (10:11)
10. *How did the Lord ask Israel to listen to Him? (10:12–13)
11. What belongs to the Lord? (10:14)
12. On whom does the Lord set His affection? (10:15)
13. What did God command Israel to do? (10:16)
14. How is the character of God described in this passage? (10:17–18)
15. Whom is Israel called to love? (10:19)
16. *What are the reasons Israel is told to listen to God? (10:20–22)
Get It
1. *What difficulties do we face when we don’t listen to God?
2. How does God’s negative description of Israel relate to how we treat God?
3. What is the difference between listening and hearing?
4. How can listening to God and hearing God be two separate things?
5. How can you know whether God is speaking to you?
6. What does the character of God in this passage tell us of His desire to speak to us?
7. *In what way are the Ten Commandments a good place to begin listening to the Lord?
Apply It
1. *When is a time you can listen to the voice of God through His Word this week?
2. Where is a quiet place you can spend time listening to God today in prayer?
3. Which one of the Ten Commandments challenges you the most in honoring God?
Love and Obey the Lord—Deuteronomy 11:1–32
Topics: Carelessness, Heart, Love, Miracles, Obedience
Open It
1. *What rules in your home were you expected to obey as a child?
2. What makes some people skeptical about miracles?
3. What is your favorite time of the day?
4. What do you think is the most important law in this country? Why?
Explore It
1. Whom were the people of Israel told to love? (11:1)
2. What was Israel commanded to remember? (11:2–4)
3. What did the Lord do to Dathan and Abiram? (11:5–7)
4. *What were the people of Israel told to observe? (11:8–9)
5. What was the land the Israelites were entering like? (11:10–12)
6. *What would happen if Israel obeyed the commands of the Lord? (11:13–15)
7. How was Israel to be careful? (11:16–17)
8. Where were the people told to put the commands of God? (11:18)
9. *Who was supposed to be taught the laws of the Lord? (11:19)
10. What was the purpose of writing the laws of the Lord on their homes? (11:20–21)
11. What did God promise if Israel carefully observed His commands? (11:22–25)
12. What was the Lord setting before Israel? (11:26–28)
13. Where are Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal located? (11:29–30)
14. What was Israel told to do when they took possession of the land? (11:31–32)
Get It
1. *What do you think God considers to be His most important law?
2. In light of this passage of Scripture, what do you think is the most important law in this country? Why?
3. How are both good and bad consequences related to laws?
4. *What happens when we fix God’s law upon our heart and mind?
5. What does this passage teach you about being careful to love the Lord?
6. How does the fear of punishment keep people from breaking God’s law?
7. How does God want us to be motivated by fear?
8. What blessings do we receive when we obey God’s commands?
Apply It
1. *What is one practical way you can memorize or remind yourself of God’s Word this week?
2. How can you love God with all your heart at home? at work?
The One Place of Worship—Deuteronomy 12:1–32
Topics: Celebration, Direction, Disobedience, Idolatry, Right, Sacrifice, Worship
Open It
1. *Why is it important to read the owner’s manual when you buy a new car?
2. What’s the first thing you like to do when you get home from a trip?
3. What is your favorite room in your home?
Explore It
1. What did God command Israel to do to all the altars of worship? (12:1–3)
2. What was Israel told about worshiping the Lord? (12:4)
3. *What directions was Israel given regarding worshiping the Lord? (12:5–6)
4. About what were the families of Israel told to worship? (12:7)
5. When was Israel to worship the Lord? (12:8–9)
6. *What specific directions did God give Israel about where to worship the Lord? (12:10–14)
7. What did God say about eating animals? (12:15–16)
8. Where was Israel commanded to eat? (12:17–18)
9. Whom were the Israelites told not to neglect? (12:19)
10. *What clear direction were the people given concerning eating meat? (12:20–25)
11. Where was Israel told to present their burnt offerings to the Lord? (12:26–27)
12. For what reason was Israel to be careful to obey the Lord? (12:28)
13. How was Israel to be careful about being ensnared by other gods? (12:29–30)
14. How did the pagan nations worship other gods? (12:31)
15. What were the Israelites told not to do with God’s commands? (12:32)
Get It
1. *How is life more significant when we follow directions?
2. What does this passage teach about the importance of worship?
3. What happens when we don’t take worship seriously?
4. What does God want our attitudes to be when we come to worship Him?
5. How is it important to worship God as He wants and not how we want?
6. *What was Israel’s track record for following God’s directions for worship?
7. What can Christians learn about worship for today from this passage?
8. How does God show His concern for Israel by giving very specific instructions?
Apply It
1. *What can you do today to follow God’s direction for worship in your life?
2. How can you deepen your walk with Christ this week through authentic worship?
Worshiping Other Gods—Deuteronomy 13:1–18
Topics: Compassion, Honor, Mercy, Occult, Slavery, Testing
Open It
1. *How do you know when someone is telling the truth or lying?
2. What unusual habits do you have while driving a car?
3. What kinds of situations move people to be compassionate?
Explore It
1. *How was Israel commanded not to listen to false prophets? (13:1–3)
2. To whom was Israel told to hold fast? (13:4)
3. *What was supposed to happen to false prophets? (13:5)
4. What happened if a family member tried to pull another away from God? (13:6–8)
5. What was the punishment for a family member who turned people away from God? (13:9–10)
6. What was the purpose of severe penalties on idol-worshiping family members? (13:11)
7. What was to be done to investigate the actions of wicked men in a town? (13:12–14)
8. How was a whole town punished for the sin of idol worship? (13:15)
9. How was an entire town supposed to be destroyed for worshiping other gods? (13:16)
10. *How would God treat His people for doing away with idols? (13:17–18)
Get It
1. What is the purpose of such severe consequences to idol worship?
2. As a God of truth, how does God refuse to allow falsehood?
3. What does God’s desire for truth tell you about His love for His people?
4. How can we discern truth from falsehood?
5. *What kinds of false prophets exist in our society today?
6. *In what ways are people not honest with God?
7. What are positive ways of dealing with family members involved in false religions?
Apply It
1. *What is a specific way you can be honest with God today?
2. Who is someone you need to be more truthful to? How?
Clean and Unclean—Deuteronomy 14:1–29
Topics: Food, Law, Money, People, Rules, Tithing
Open It
1. *What is your favorite animal?
2. What kind of animal are you most afraid of?
3. How are generous people different from stingy people?
Explore It
1. What is the Israelites’ identity? (14:1)
2. What did the Lord choose His people to be? (14:2)
3. *What animals did the Lord say the Israelites were able to eat? (14:3–5)
4. What kinds of restrictions did the Lord put on eating animals with hooves? (14:6–7)
5. *What specific animal were the Israelites not allowed to eat? (14:8)
6. What types of fish were the Israelites allowed to eat? (14:9–10)
7. *What birds were the people of God given permission to eat? (14:11–20)
8. What did the Lord say about eating dead things? (14:21)
9. How were the Israelites told to handle tithes? (14:22–25)
10. What was Israel told to do with their silver? (14:26)
11. Whom were the Israelites told not to neglect? (14:27)
12. What were the people of Israel told to do every three years? (14:28–29)
Get It
1. *How do the laws of God differ from the laws of the jungle?
2. How do humans sometimes act like animals?
3. How were Israel’s food restrictions a way for them to honor God?
4. *What possible reasons exist for God’s determining clean and unclean animals?
5. How are we called to specifically live according to God’s commands today?
6. How do you feel knowing that God has chosen you to be His treasured possession?
7. What does it mean to be children of the Lord?
8. How can we live holy lives to the Lord?
Apply It
1. *How can you honor God this week by obeying His specific commands?
2. How can you rest in God’s grace today knowing you are His treasured possession?
The Year for Canceling Debts—Deuteronomy 15:1–23
Topics: Abundance, Generosity, Money, Poor, Selfishness, Slavery, Value
Open It
1. *What is it like to lend someone money and not get paid back?
2. How can wealth create more problems than poverty?
3. How can helping the poor change the way we value certain things?
Explore It
1. What were the Israelites told to do at the end of every seven years? (15:1)
2. *How were canceled debts supposed to be handled? (15:2)
3. From whom was Israel required to cancel their debts? (15:3)
4. What did God not want in Israel? (15:4–6)
5. *What attitude did God want the Israelites to have toward people in need? (15:7–8)
6. What wicked thought was Israel told not to harbor? (15:9)
7. *What would happen if Israel gave generously? (15:10)
8. How did God command the people of Israel to treat the poor? (15:11)
9. When was a fellow Hebrew allowed to be let go? (15:12–13)
10. With what was a released Hebrew slave to be provided? (15:14)
11. What was Israel told to remember? (15:15)
12. What was to happen if a servant did not want to leave his or her master? (15:16–18)
13. What was Israel told to set apart for the Lord? (15:19)
14. How were the Israelites commanded to eat animals presented to the Lord? (15:20–22)
15. What were the Israelites told not to eat? (15:23)
Get It
1. *What makes lending money a difficult thing to do?
2. How does this passage teach us about God’s concern for the poor?
3. What are common attitudes Christians have about giving?
4. What should be our attitude about giving?
5. How could God’s church make a bigger difference in the world if people were givers?
6. What is the difference between a giver and a taker?
7. *How are relationships to be handled when one person doesn’t repay another?
8. How can Christians fight poverty today?
9. How does cheerful giving demonstrate a powerful example of God’s presence in our lives?
Apply It
1. *What is a specific step you can take to give or to help someone in need?
2. What can you do this week to pay back any debt you may have to someone else?
3. What can you do to forgive someone else’s debt?
Passover—Deuteronomy 16:1–20
Topics: Celebration, Justice, Remembering, Sacrifice, Thanksgiving
Open It
1. What is your favorite time of the year?
2. *What celebrations does your family celebrate every year?
3. What are you most thankful for in your life?
Explore It
1. *What was Israel told to celebrate? (16:1)
2. What were the Israelites told to sacrifice? (16:2)
3. What type of bread was Israel told to eat? (16:3)
4. What were the Israelites not allowed to have in their possession? (16:4)
5. *Where were the people of Israel allowed to celebrate the Passover? (16:5–6)
6. How was the Passover sacrifice to be cooked? (16:7)
7. What were the Israelites told to do on the seventh day of Passover? (16:8)
8. When were the Israelites told to celebrate the Feast of Weeks? (16:9–11)
9. What was Israel told to remember? (16:12)
10. *When were the Israelites to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles? (16:13–14)
11. How would the Lord bless the Israelites? (16:15)
12. How many times a year were the men of Israel required to stand before the Lord? (16:16)
13. What was each man required to bring? (16:17)
14. Who was to be appointed in every town of the Israelites? (16:18)
15. How was justice to be carried out in Israel? (16:19)
16. For what reason was Israel to follow justice? (16:20)
Get It
1. *What is the purpose of celebrating the Lord?
2. What are different ways people choose to celebrate the Lord?
3. What does this passage imply about consistently celebrating God?
4. *How does a heart of celebration change our perspective when circumstances are not going well?
5. What is the reason God commands us to be joyful?
6. What is unattractive about people who aren’t joyful?
7. Why should we discipline ourselves to be joyful?
Apply It
1. *What step can you take to celebrate the Lord today?
2. How can you celebrate what God has done in your life this past week?
Worshiping Other Gods—Deuteronomy 16:21–17:20
Topics: Idolatry, Judgment, Justice, Law, Sacrifice, Worship
Open It
1. *What is the most outrageous legal case you’ve ever heard about?
2. If you were caught for a crime, how would you want to be treated?
Explore It
1. What was Israel commanded not to set up? (16:21–22)
2. What kind of sacrifice is detestable to the Lord? (17:1)
3. *What was to be done if someone was suspected of worshiping other gods? (17:2–4)
4. How was the punishment for idol worship to be handled? (17:5)
5. How many witnesses were required for someone to be put to death? (17:6)
6. Who was first required to lay hands on a person about to be stoned? (17:7)
7. *What were the Israelites supposed to do with cases that were too difficult to handle? (17:8)
8. To whom were the people required to go for legal matters? (17:9)
9. *How were the Israelites required to act according to the judges’ decisions? (17:10–11)
10. What happened to someone who showed contempt for the judge? (17:12–13)
11. How was the appointment of a king to be handled? (17:14–15)
12. What was the king not permitted to do? (17:16–17)
13. The king is required to write down what? (17:18)
14. What was the king commanded to do with the law of God? (17:19)
15. How was the king supposed to treat his brothers? (17:20)
Get It
1. *What does this passage teach us about God’s concern for justice?
2. According to this Scripture, how does God want legal matters handled?
3. What implications do these verses have for our attitude toward justice and fairness?
4. In what way was the king of Israel to be a spiritual leader of his people?
5. How is it crucial that Christian leaders today spend time reading the Scriptures?
6. *What does this passage teach us about giving others a fair trial?
7. How do Christians sometimes judge others without knowing all the facts?
8. What can we do to be fair and just to others?
Apply It
1. *How can you treat others with justice at home? at work?
2. What is one specific way you can help yourself refrain from making premature judgments against others?
Offerings for Priests and Levites; Detestable Practices; Prophets—Deuteronomy 18:1–22
Topics: Call, Choices, Evil, Giving, Occult, Promises, Prophecy
Open It
1. *What kinds of occult practices seem most bizarre to you?
2. What do you think draws people to the occult?
3. Whom do you know who has chosen ministry as a career?
Explore It
1. What were the priests of Israel not to have? (18:1–2)
2. What were the priests to receive from the people? (18:3–5)
3. What happened when a Levite moved? (18:6–7)
4. What types of benefits was a priest to receive when he moved? (18:8)
5. *What was Israel told not to imitate when they entered the new land? (18:9)
6. *Who was not allowed to participate in occult practices? (18:10–11)
7. *What does God consider witchcraft to be? (18:12)
8. How were the Israelites told to be before God? (18:13)
9. To whom do other nations listen? (18:14)
10. Whom did Moses say God would raise up? (18:15)
11. What did Israel say at Horeb? (18:16)
12. How did the Lord respond when Israel asked for someone to speak for God? (18:17–18)
13. What are the responsibilities of a prophet? (18:19–20)
14. How could Israel know if a prophet’s words were true? (18:21–22)
Get It
1. What kinds of occult practices exist in our society today?
2. Why are some people drawn to witchcraft?
3. For whom does a fortune-teller speak?
4. How do you think Moses felt to see his people interested in false gods?
5. What does this passage teach us about discerning truth from evil?
6. *How are people naive about consulting horoscopes, fortune-tellers, and other “innocent” occult practices?
7. *What can Christians do to expose the falsehood of occult practices?
Apply It
1. *Who is someone involved in the occult for whom you can pray this week?
2. What is a specific way you can live for the one true God?
Cities of Refuge—Deuteronomy 19:1–20:20
Topics: Accusation, Battle, Commands, Death, Hate, Neighbor, Obedience, Opposition, War
Open It
1. How do you know if someone is a good neighbor?
2. What is your favorite mystery television show?
3. *If your city were attacked by another country, to where would you flee?
Explore It
1. What were the Israelites commanded to do when they received land from the Lord? (19:1–3)
2. What was the rule for someone who is accidentally killed? (19:4–7)
3. What was Israel to do if their territory enlarged? (19:8–10)
4. How was a man who hated his neighbor to be punished? (19:11–13)
5. What were the Israelites commanded not to move? (19:14)
6. How were malicious witnesses dealt with? (19:15–21)
7. *When Israel went to battle, what were they commanded to do? (20:1)
8. *What was the priest to say to the Israelite army? (20:2–4)
9. What were the officers to tell the men in the army to do? (20:5–8)
10. What did the officers appoint for the army? (20:9)
11. What were the Israelites to do if a city refused to make peace? (20:10–15)
12. *How was Israel supposed to conquer the cities that the Lord gave to them? (20:16–18)
13. During a siege, how were fruit trees treated? (20:19–20)
Get It
1. What does this passage tell us about God’s love for our neighbors?
2. How does God want us to treat our neighbors fairly?
3. What danger do malicious witnesses pose to our legal system?
4. How does God not tolerate injustice?
5. *What fears are you confronted with when you have personal battles?
6. *How can fear cripple our trust in God?
7. Who is someone you would be willing to follow into battle?
8. How do you feel knowing that God wants to go before you in your struggles?
Apply It
1. *What opposition are you facing this week that you need God’s strength to handle?
2. How can you give God your fears today?
3. Who is someone you can talk to this week about a battle too big to handle on your own?
Atonement for an Unsolved Murder—Deuteronomy 21:1–22:30
Topics: Adultery, Family, Forgiveness, Guilt, Murder, Neighbor, Sex
Open It
1. What is it about unsolved murders that fascinates people?
2. *What types of events cause families to break up?
3. What sort of offense would be most difficult for you to forgive?
Explore It
1. What were the elders and judges to do when a slain person was found? (21:1–5)
2. What did the elders declare after they had killed a heifer? (21:6–9)
3. How were the men of Israel to treat women they captured from defeated enemies? (21:10–14)
4. *How were the rights of the firstborn to be handled? (21:15–17)
5. *What was a man told to do if he had a stubborn and rebellious son? (21:18–19)
6. If a stubborn son was found guilty of rebellion, what was his punishment? (21:20–21)
7. If someone was hung for a capital offense, what happened to the body? (21:22–23)
8. What was a person supposed to do if he or she saw his or her brother’s animals straying? (22:1–3)
9. How were Israelites told to treat fallen animals? (22:4)
10. What dress code did God have for men and women? (22:5)
11. How are the people of Israel required to treat a bird’s nest? (22:6–7)
12. What various regulations did God give Israel? (22:8–12)
13. *How did a girl give proof of her virginity in Israel? (22:13–19)
14. If no proof of a girl’s virginity could be found, how was she to be punished? (22:20–21)
15. How were adulterers in Israel to be punished? (22:22)
16. In what ways were virgins protected by God’s law? (22:23–30)
Get It
1. How do God’s laws reveal His desire to protect families?
2. *How can sexual immorality destroy families?
3. *What are different ways people handle rebellious children today?
4. What does this passage teach us about how to treat family members?
5. How does the Word of God provide healthy boundaries for people to live by?
6. How are sexual crimes handled in our society today?
7. In what ways does this passage protect the rights of unmarried women?
Apply It
1. *What can you do today to be a positive influence in your family?
2. How can you be supportive of someone who comes from a difficult family?
Exclusion from the Assembly—Deuteronomy 23:1–25:19
Topics: Death, Divorce, Family, Guilty, Honesty, Justice, Marriage, Stress, Vows
Open It
1. Why is it important to read the fine print of a legal document?
2. What is the most ridiculous law you’ve ever heard of?
3. *What rules did you have growing up in your family?
Explore It
1. Who was prevented from entering the assembly of the Lord? (23:1–6)
2. Whom was Israel told not to abhor? (23:7–8)
3. How were the Israelites to keep good sanitary habits? (23:9–14)
4. How were refugee slaves to be treated? (23:15–16)
5. Who was prohibited from becoming a shrine prostitute? (23:17–18)
6. *To whom were the Israelites told not to charge interest? (23:19–20)
7. How were vows to the Lord supposed to be honored? (23:21–23)
8. How much food were Israelites allowed to take from their neighbor’s fields? (23:24–25)
9. *How was divorce to be handled? (24:1–4)
10. What was a recently married man allowed to do? (24:5)
11. How were the Israelites commanded to treat poor people? (24:12–15)
12. How were provisions made for the poor in Israel? (24:19–22)
13. How were disputes in Israel dealt with? (25:1–3)
14. *What was the conflict with the Family of the Unsandaled all about? (25:5–10)
15. What did the Amalekites do to the Israelites? (25:17–19)
Get It
1. *What responsibilities do family members have for one another?
2. What does God think about divorce?
3. What is good or bad about lending money to family members?
4. In your experience what causes most family conflicts?
5. *What principles do you see here for living with family members?
6. How are we responsible to help the poor?
7. What does a good family look like?
Apply It
1. *What is a specific way you can show love to a family member this week?
2. How can you apply God’s principles for the family to your family life today?
Firstfruits and Tithes—Deuteronomy 26:1–19
Topics: Gifts, Giving, Holiness, Honor, Obedience, Tithing, Worship
Open It
1. What is the best gift you have ever received?
2. What gifts do you think God likes to receive?
3. *In what circumstances do you like to give someone a gift?
Explore It
1. *What was Israel commanded to give when they entered the land? (26:1–2)
2. What were the people of Israel to say to the priest? (26:3)
3. What did the priest set in front of the altar? (26:4)
4. What did the Israelites declare to the Lord? (26:5–10)
5. In what were the people of Israel to rejoice? (26:11)
6. *To whom was the tithe of the Israelites given? (26:12)
7. *What did the Israelites say to the Lord about their tithe? (26:13–15)
8. What were the Israelites to observe carefully? (26:16)
9. How was Israel commanded to walk in God’s ways? (26:17)
10. Who is the Lord’s treasured possession? (26:18)
11. How will God set Israel above every other nation? (26:19)
Get It
1. *What is the purpose of tithing to the Lord?
2. What does giving our time and resources to the Lord do for our heart?
3. *How is God pleased when we bless others with what He has given us?
4. How are giving and following the commands of the Lord related?
5. What does this passage say to you about carefully observing the commands of God?
6. What blessings does God pour out when we honor Him with our giving?
7. What does it mean to walk in the ways of the Lord?
Apply It
1. *How can you specifically offer your resources to the Lord this week?
2. What is a concrete action you can take this week to tithe to the Lord?
The Altar on Mount Ebal—Deuteronomy 27:1–28:68
Topics: Blessing, Choices, Danger, Idolatry, Obedience, Promises, Remembering
Open It
1. What is a good decision you recently made?
2. In times of trouble, what are ways people resort to drastic measures?
3. *What do you find true about the statement “You reap what you sow”?
Explore It
1. What did Moses and the elders of Israel command the people? (27:1–4)
2. What were the Israelites told to build? (27:5–8)
3. What did Moses and the Levites say to all of Israel? (27:9–14)
4. What curse did the Levites pronounce against idol worshipers? (27:15)
5. What curse was given to people who lead the blind astray? (27:18)
6. For what reason would a person be cursed for not carrying out the law? (27:26)
7. *What blessings would Israel receive for following God’s commands? (28:1–13)
8. *What directions were the people of Israel given about where to turn? (28:14)
9. What curses would follow Israel for not following the commands of the Lord? (28:15–24)
10. How would the enemies of the Lord defeat the Israelites? (28:25–26)
11. What bad news did God have for Israel? (28:36–37)
12. Why would so many curses overcome the Israelites? (28:45–48)
13. What would happen if Israel did not carefully follow all the words of the law? (28:58–63)
14. How would Israel become scattered throughout the earth for abandoning the Lord? (28:64–67)
15. *Where would Israel be sent back for their sin against the Lord? (28:68)
Get It
1. *How do the decisions we make today affect the rest of our lives?
2. What are ways people do not always consider the severity of their actions?
3. How does God want to bless us for following His ways?
4. What does this passage teach us about considering every decision we make?
5. If you were Moses, how would you have felt challenging the people to follow God?
6. *How do small decisions for God have an impact on big decisions for God?
7. In what way does our sin always “find us out”?
8. How can Christian friends help us to stay on track with our love for God?
Apply It
1. *What is a specific decision you need to make to honor God?
2. In what area of your life do you want to invite the Holy Spirit to work?
Renewal of the Covenant—Deuteronomy 29:1–30:20
Topics: Children, Choices, Covenant, Life, Love, People, Renewal, Repentance
Open It
1. What is the most outrageous thing you would do for ten thousand dollars?
2. In what life and death situations do people find themselves?
3. *What is the one thing you love about life?
Explore It
1. *What did God command Moses to make with the Israelites? (29:1)
2. What did Moses tell the Israelites about their forty years with the Lord? (29:2–6)
3. Whose land did the Israelites take? (29:7–8)
4. *What did Moses say about the Israelites’ covenant with the Lord? (29:9–15)
5. How did Moses remind the people not to worship other gods? (29:16–18)
6. About what attitudes did Moses warn Israel? (29:19–21)
7. What would the people of Israel encounter because of their ancestors’ sin? (29:22–24)
8. *What would the children learn about the broken covenant of their fathers? (29:25–29)
9. What did God promise to do when Israel returned to Him? (30:1–7)
10. What would happen when Israel relearned how to obey God? (30:8–10)
11. What was not beyond Israel’s reach? (30:11)
12. What made the Word of God accessible to the people of Israel? (30:12–14)
13. What did God set before His people? (30:15–16)
14. What was Israel promised if they turned away from God? (30:17–18)
15. How did God offer His promise of life to the Israelites? (30:19–20)
Get It
1. In what way does God allow us to live with our choices?
2. *What is the difference between a contract and a covenant?
3. How do our choices influence our children to follow or reject God?
4. *What kind of covenant or agreement does God ask us to live by today?
5. What do we have to leave behind when we follow God?
6. What often leads people to reject God?
7. How does this passage call us to live humble lives before God?
Apply It
1. *What is one concrete way you can choose to follow God this week?
2. How can you apply God’s promises to your life?
Joshua to Succeed Moses—Deuteronomy 31:1–29
Topics: Courage, Leadership, Rebellion, Strength, Stubbornness
Open It
1. *If you were to pick someone to replace you at work, whom would you choose? Why?
2. Who is one person you know you can always trust (besides God)?
3. What characteristics do you look for in someone to follow?
Explore It
1. What did Moses say to Israel? (31:1–2)
2. Who did Moses say was going to go across the Jordan before Israel? (31:3–4)
3. What did God command Israel to do? (31:5–6)
4. *What did Moses say to Joshua about his new leadership role? (31:7)
5. *What did Moses promise Joshua? (31:8)
6. Who carried the ark of the covenant? (31:9)
7. What did Moses command the Israelites to do at the end of every seven years? (31:10–13)
8. What warning did God give Moses? (31:14)
9. How did God say the Israelites would forsake Him? (31:15–18)
10. What did God tell Moses to write down? (31:19)
11. What was the purpose of the song God gave to Moses? (31:20–21)
12. What did Moses teach the Israelites? (31:22)
13. *What did the Lord tell Joshua? (31:23)
14. What did Moses do after he wrote down the law? (31:24–25)
15. What did Moses say to the Levites? (31:26–28)
16. What was going to happen to the Israelites after Moses’ death? (31:29)
Get It
1. *What makes it difficult to be in a leadership position?
2. How do you think Moses felt about Israel’s impending rejection of God?
3. If you were Moses, how would you have tried to warn the people not to forsake God?
4. What emotions do you think Joshua was experiencing with his new position?
5. What makes it important to have a more experienced leader from whom you can learn?
6. How are people reluctant to take on positions they have never held before?
7. *What critical character qualities does an experienced leader need to pass on to a younger one?
8. What are some characteristics God wants in any strong leader?
Apply It
1. *What leadership quality can you work on as a servant-leader for Christ this week?
2. What specific questions do you want to ask of an older Christian you respect?
The Song of Moses—Deuteronomy 31:30–32:52
Topics: Faithfulness, Forget, Greatness, Honor, Obedience, Praise
Open It
1. *What is your favorite song?
2. With whom do you share your most exciting stories or day-to-day experiences? Why?
3. What music group do you like best?
Explore It
1. *What did Moses recite to the Israelites? (31:30)
2. What did Moses say about God? (32:1–4)
3. How did Moses explain how Israel acted toward God? (32:5–6)
4. What did Moses tell the Israelites to remember about God? (32:7–8)
5. Moses described Jacob’s inheritance in what way? (32:9–14)
6. How did Israel walk away from God? (32:15–18)
7. What did God say in response to Israel’s rejection of Him? (32:19–27)
8. How did Moses compare Israel and the pagan nations? (32:28–35)
9. How did God say He would judge His people? (32:36–39)
10. How is vengeance taken out against the enemies of God? (32:40–43)
11. *Who came along with Moses to speak the song to Israel? (32:44)
12. What did Moses say God’s words were to Israel? (32:45–47)
13. *Where did God tell Moses to go the same day he sang his song? (32:48–49)
14. What did God tell Moses about seeing the Promised Land? (32:50–52)
Get It
1. How can singing bring us closer to God?
2. *What different types of worship music transform our lives?
3. What is the purpose of singing to the Lord?
4. How did Moses use a song to help Israel remember who God is?
5. *How are songs used today to help us remember the character of God?
6. How is worship an act of obedience to the Lord?
7. What Christian musician inspires you to walk closer with Jesus Christ?
8. How can music help us to apply God’s Word to our lives?
Apply It
1. What is a practical way you can give God your praise today?
2. *Who is someone you can encourage? How?
3. How can you make music a more meaningful part of your daily Christian life?
Moses Blesses the Tribes; Moses Dies—Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12
Topics: Blessing, Community, Death, Mourning, People, Promises, Teamwork
Open It
1. What is the best compliment someone has ever given you?
2. What is your favorite memory of your grandparents?
3. *What do you like or dislike about saying good-bye to people you love?
Explore It
1. *What did Moses pronounce to Israel before his death? (33:1)
2. What did Moses say about God? (33:2–3)
3. What did Moses say about Reuben? (33:6)
4. What did Moses say about Levi? (33:8–11)
5. How was Naphtali described by Moses? (33:23)
6. What description is given to characterize God? (33:27)
7. In what way did Moses bless Israel? (33:29)
8. What mountain did Moses climb? (34:1)
9. What territories did the Lord show Moses? (34:1–3)
10. What did the Lord say to Moses? (34:4)
11. *Where did Moses die? (34:5–6)
12. *How old was Moses when he died? (34:7)
13. How long did the Israelites grieve for Moses? (34:8)
14. With what was Joshua filled? (34:9)
15. How close was Moses’ relationship with the Lord? (34:10)
16. Where did Moses perform his miraculous signs and wonders? (34:11)
17. How powerful were the deeds that Moses did? (34:12)
Get It
1. What keeps people from telling others how they really feel about them?
2. How did Moses tell all of Israel how he felt about them?
3. *How can Christians give God’s blessings to one another?
4. What makes death such a hard reality to face?
5. *What might the people of Israel been feeling at the death of Moses?
6. How can people comfort one another when a friend or loved one dies?
7. How does death offer the opportunity for us to help one another face eternity?
Apply It
1. *Who is someone you can bless with God’s love this week?
2. What is a practical way you can honor the people in your life?
3. Whom do you know to have recently lost a loved one that you can comfort this week? How?
Adult Questions for LESSONmaker (2024). Bellingham, WA: Logos, p. Dt 1:1–34:12.