Numbers Chapter 30 Summary
The laws of vows.
Discussion Questions for Numbers, Chapter 30
- How does this chapter highlight the weight of a vow in that day? What would be the equivalent of a vow in today’s context?
- What does keeping one’s word say about a person's character? What kind of reputation does your word have? Does it reflect the character you want to have?
- How does this chapter make you reconsider and contemplate what kinds of things you make strong commitments to?
- Have you ever had someone break a promise they had made to you? How did that make you feel? How does God’s merciful heart regarding broken vows impact how we can respond to broken promises?
- Why are there differences in the vows between men and women? What were your initial thoughts when you saw that each was given specific guidelines?
- Why are the guidelines for women longer? How would these vows protect women?
- What responsibility does a father have to protect his daughter? How can a father help his daughter make wise decisions? What responsibility does a husband have to protect his wife? How should decisions and commitments be resolved if husband and wife disagree?
- What are some ways today’s society might respond to this chapter? How can you maintain a healthy conversation that allows you to support people's questions while staying true to God’s Word?
- What role did a father or husband play in a woman’s vows? How would this have differed from the way women were more commonly treated culturally?
- God often made guidelines that helped support His people according to what the “secular response” would have been at the time. How do you think the world responded to a vow being broken in a secular context at that time? How does considering this help us see God’s heart in this passage?
Key Words/Phrase
Vows, v. 2.
Characters
God, Moses.
Strong Verse(s)
2
