Name that Judge
Their biggest weakness was women
Samson
How did Samson's parents react to Samson's choice of girl?
Judges 14:3-4
3His father and mother replied, “Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?”
But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.” 4 (His parents did not know that this was from the Lord, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)
Jephthah makes a rash vow to sacrifice the first thing that comes out of his house if he wins the battle against the Ammonites. Who came out his house?
Tragically, his daughter is the first to greet him upon his return.
The Book of Judges is about the days before Israel had a regular king. Yet one man did manage to become a king during this time period. Who?
Saul
What judge assassinates the king of Moab?
Ehud
How old was Joshua when he died?
What creature did Samson encounter on his way to Timnah, which he later turned into a riddle for the Philistines?
A lion
How many pieces was a Levite woman's body cut into?
12
In Judges 19, a Levite and his concubine were traveling through the territory of the tribe of Benjamin when they decided to spend the night in the town of Gibeah. However, the men of Gibeah, described as "wicked men," surrounded the house and demanded to have sexual relations with the Levite. The homeowner, seeking to protect his guest, offered his own virgin daughter and the Levite's concubine to appease the mob, but they refused.
Eventually, the Levite himself pushed his concubine outside to the men, who then abused her throughout the night. In the morning, the Levite found his concubine dead at the doorstep. He then took her body, cut it into twelve pieces, and sent them throughout the territories of Israel as a grim message.
This statement concludes the Book of Judges
"In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
How did God react to the new generation bowing down to other Gods?
Judges 2:12 "And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger."
What was Samson's riddle?
"Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet."
The Bible tells us that, on his way to Timnah, Samson ended up killing a young lion who attacked him (Judges 14:5). After Samson met with his prospective bride, he returned the way he came and noticed that the carcass of the lion was filled with honey and swarming with bees. “So he scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went” (Judges 14:9).
Whether or not this was a violation of his Nazirite vows is uncertain. However, the text implies clear sinfulness on Samson’s part. After all, Samson did not tell his father or mother what he had done. Instead, they proceeded to prepare the feast for Samson’s marriage to the Philistine woman.
Samson was, of course, referring to the honey he had recently scooped from the carcass of the lion, an event his companions would have had no knowledge of. It was, therefore, an impossible riddle to solve and an unfair wager to begin with.
As one might expect, the Philistines were unable to solve Samson’s riddle.
Ehud, a left-handed judge of Israel, assassinates King Eglon of Moab by plunging a dagger into where?
His belly
What tribe killed the people of Laish, burned the city, set up a graven image, and kept their own priests?
Dan
Which judge had 30 sons, 30 cities and 30 colts?
Jair
Would Barak go up against Jabin alone? Who did he insist go with him?
No, he wanted Deborah to go with him.
Judges 4:8 "Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”"
This person convinced Samson to tell them the answer to his riddle, which they then told the Philistines.
Who is Samson's wife?
Context
Frustrated by the riddle, the Philistines entreated Samson’s wife to give them the answer, threatening to burn her and her father’s house if she did not (Judges 14:15).
Samson’s wife then brought out the tears, begging Samson to reveal the answer to his riddle, and after seven days, Samson gave in (as he frequently did). His wife in turn delivered the answer to the Philistines.
Answer in hand, the Philistines finally returned to Samson. “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” they said (Judges 14:18).
Enraged that he had been deceived, Samson then traveled to Ashkelon and killed thirty of the Philistines, demonstrating his penchant for vengeance and violence at the slightest provocation (Judges 14:19).
Abimelech, the son of Gideon, is fatally wounded when a woman drops a _____ from a tower, crushing his skull.
millstone
Why did God bring Judges?
Judges 2:18 - And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their
Name all of the Judges in the book of Judges
Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah/Barak, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan , Elon, Abdon , and Samson.
1. How long was Israel oppressed by Midian?
2. How did the Israelites react?
3. How did God react to the Israelites reaction?
1. 7 years
2. They cried out to the Lord.
3. He sent a prophet.
Judges 6:1-18
6 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoplesinvaded the country. 4 They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. 5 They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.
7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, 8 he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 9 I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. 10 I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”
11 The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite,where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”
13 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lordis with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
14 The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”
15 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
16 The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.”
17 Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. 18 Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.”
And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.”
What did Samson use to defeat a thousand Philistines?
The jawbone of a donkey
As Sisera falls asleep, what did Jael do to him?
After the Israelite general Barak defeats Sisera's army, Sisera flees on foot and seeks refuge in the tent of Heber the Kenite, as there was a peace treaty between Heber's clan and Sisera's king, Jabin. Jael, Heber's wife, welcomes Sisera into her tent and offers him milk to drink and a place to rest.
As Sisera falls asleep, Jael takes a tent peg and a hammer and drives the peg through his temple, fastening him to the ground.
Micah stole this amount of silver from his mother, which he eventually returned.
What is Eleven hundred pieces?