Tanach Yomi

Yehoshua 17 - Review Questions

This chapter centers on the inheritance of which tribe(s)?
What are the main families of the tribe of Menashe?
What do Tzlafechad’s daughters request of Yehoshua and Elazar? Why do they ask for this?
Were the children of Menashe able to drive out all of the Canaanites who lived in the cities that they inherited? What happened to those (if any) that remained?
What was the complaint of the children of Yosef (the tribes of Menashe and Efrayim)? What did they base this complain on?
What was Yehoshua’s response to the complaint of the tribes of Yosef?

The land of which tribe (or tribes) is discussed in this chapter?
Was the tribe of Efraim successful in displacing the Canaanites in Gezer? If not, what happened to these Canaanites?

What is the main topic of this chapter
Give a rough description of the border’s of the land of the tribe of Yehuda.
What major city is along the northern border of Yehuda’s land?
Who does Calev fight and defeat?
What does Calev offer as a reward to the person who can conquer Kiryat Sefer? Who wins this reward?
What are some of the explanations in the commentaries as to how Otniel ben Kenaz can be the brother of Calev ben Yefuneh (since their names indicate that theyhave different fathers)?

How is the number of nine and a half trib (who will be inheriting land to the West of the Jordan River) reached? Which tribes are included? Which are not included?
Who approaches Yehoshua regarding land that was promised to him by Moshe? Why was he promised this land?
What land is Calev given? Does this land have any additional names? Why was it given the additional name?
How old was Calev when he was with the spies? How old is he now? According to these numbers, how many years does this chapter take place after Bnei Yisrael have entered the Land of Israel?

When do the events of this chapter occur, chronologically, in relation to the first twelve chapters of Sefer Yehoshua?
What does God command Yehoshua to do at the beginning of the chapter?
What parts of Eretz Yisrael remain unconquered by Bnei Yisrael?
Why is Yehoshua commanded to split the land among only nine and a half tribes?
Where is the inheritance of the tribe of Levi?

What is the main topic of this chapter?
How many Kingdoms West of the Jordan River were defeated? Who were their Kings? What tribes inherited their land?
How many kings to the West of the Jordan River were defeated by Yehoshua? From what nations did these kings come?
What is to happen to the captured land?