Judges Overview
The repeating pattern in Judges is often summarized by these five stages.
What is sin, oppression, crying out, deliverance, and peace?
The angel of the Lord found this future judge threshing wheat in a winepress to hide from the Midianites.
Who is Gideon?
Shamgar defeated 600 Philistines using this farming tool.
What is an oxgoad?
This tribe migrated north and set up its own idol worship.
Who is the tribe of Dan?
After the war with Benjamin, the Israelites went to this place, where the tabernacle was located, to find wives for the surviving Benjamites.
What is Shiloh?
This is the total number of judges recorded in the Book of Judges.
What is 12?
This prophetess and judge led Israel alongside Barak against Sisera.
Who is Deborah?
The object Jael used to kill Sisera was this item.
What is a tent peg?
After serving as a personal priest in the hill country of Ephraim, this Levite later became priest to the tribe of Dan.
Who is Jonathan?
While traveling home from retrieving his concubine, a Levite stopped for the night in this Benjaminite city, where a terrible crime took place.
What is Gibeah?
Before the stories of the judges begin, the book opens with this unusual structure.
What are two introductions?
This judge defeated the Moabites after killing King Eglon with a hidden dagger.
Who is Ehud?
Samson devastated Philistine crops by setting loose this fiery combination.
What are torches tied to foxes?
After vowing not to give their daughters to Benjamin, Israel told the remaining Benjamites to do this during a festival at Shiloh.
What is kidnap the women of Shiloh?
To provide wives for the surviving Benjamites, Israel attacked this city that had not joined the battle.
What is Jabesh-Gilead?
The period covered in the book of Judges spans roughly this many years between the death of Joshua and the rise of Samuel.
What is about 300 years?
Before becoming a judge of Israel, this man was driven away by his brothers and lived in the land of Tob with a group of worthless men.
Who is Jephthah?
Gideon’s 300 men carried these two unusual items into battle along with their trumpets.
What are torches and clay jars?
This man’s mother dedicated silver to the Lord, but it was later used to make a carved idol.
Who is Micah?
Sisera fled to the tent of Jael near this location, where he was killed with a tent peg.
What is Kedesh?
This phrase appears multiple times in Judges to describe the reason for Israel’s spiritual chaos.
What is “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”
This judge won Caleb’s daughter Achsah by capturing the city of Debir.
Who is Othniel?
Samson killed 1,000 Philistines using this unusual weapon.
What is the jawbone of a donkey?
After suffering two defeats in the civil war against Benjamin, the Israelites humbled themselves before the Lord at Bethel by doing these two things.
What are fasting and offerings?
The tribe of Dan attacked and burned this quiet northern city before settling there and renaming it Dan.
What is Laish?