Judges

Question 1

Theme of Judges

Answer 1

Disobedience and Defeat, Disobedience cost Israel her covenant blessings

Question 2

Outline (Simple)

Answer 2

I. Disobedience (1–3)
II. Deliverance (3–16)
III. Disaster/Depravity (17–21)

Question 3

Date of Judges

Answer 3

Covers 300 years from 1374-1050 B.C.

Question 4

Chapter 5

Answer 4

Song of Deborah

Question 5

Chapters 6–8

Answer 5

Gideon’s judgeship

Question 6

Chapters 13–16

Answer 6

Samson’s judgeship

Question 7

Judges 11:34–40

Answer 7

“Then Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter. So it happened that when he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me. But I have opened my mouth to vow to Yahweh, and I cannot take it back.” So she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to vow to Yahweh; do to me according to what has gone out from your mouth, since Yahweh has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon.” Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my companions.” Then he said, “Go.” So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her companions and wept on the mountains because of her virginity. And it happened at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he did to her according to the vow which he had made; and she did not know a man. Thus it became a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.”

Question 8

Judges 17:6 (21:25)

Answer 8

“In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.”

Question 9

Barak

Answer 9

Collaborated with Deborah

Question 10

Deborah

Answer 10

Fourth judge of Israel, a prophetess, administrator of justice, “a mother in Israel”

Question 11

Gideon

Answer 11

Unique victor over Midianites

Question 12

Jepthah

Answer 12

Eighth judge of Israel, of illegitimate birth, appointed leader over Gilead,
he defeated Ammonites decisively as well as the Ephramites, his vow caused him to sacrifice his daughter

Question 13

Samson

Answer 13

Twelfth judge of Israel, fought the Philistines, very strong, with strong weaknesses