Judges

Question 1

Debrorah

Answer 1

Judge of Israel and prophet. Leads army and commands Barak to defeat king Jabin

Question 2

Barak

Answer 2

captain of Northern country instructed by Deborah to carry out plan to attack Jabin.

Question 3

Yael

Answer 3

kills Sisera with stake and hammer after seducing him and gaining his trust

Question 4

Sisera

Answer 4

army leader of King Jabin’s army. He flees when his army is attacked. Yael seduces him and kills him.

Question 5

Gideon and the angel, the alter

Answer 5

Poor farmer that messenger of God comes to to tell him he has been chosen to save Israel. He breaks down the alter of baal and defeats the midianites.

Question 6

ירבעל

Answer 6

new name for gideon after he destroys baal alter. Let baal contend with him

Question 7

Avimelech

Answer 7

Son of Gideon. killed his brothers to become king of Shechem

Question 8

משל יותם

Answer 8

parable to explain why Avimelech should not be king

Question 9

Yiftach, and his daugter

Answer 9

makes an oath that if he beats the Amonites he will sacrifice the first thing out of his door. It was his daugter

Question 10

Manoah and Manoah’s wife

Answer 10

parents of samson. Angel visits wife and tells her she will have son. Husband wants to angel. Husband then thinks they are going to die- but obviously not because God just promised them a child

Question 11

מיכיהו

Answer 11

man from Ephraim who invites levite to be his priest

Question 12

MIchah’s preist and the tribe of Dan

Answer 12

When Dan was searching for a new territory they passed through Ephraim and took Michah’s priest to be priest over all of Dan rather than just one man.

Question 13

פילגש בגבעה

Answer 13

concubine that was rapped and killed when she was in Givah (Benjaminite). The husband cut her up and sent her to all the tribes so show what they had done. All Israel had was against Benjamin and then oathed not to give daugters to them. They had to take wives by force in the vinyards at SHilo instead.

Question 14

לֵךְ וְאַרְאֶךָּ אֶת-הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה מְבַקֵּשׁ

Answer 14

Judges 4:22

And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him: ‘Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest.’ And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.

Yael says to Barak after she kills Sisera.

Question 15

מַיִם שָׁאַל, חָלָב נָתָנָה

Answer 15

Judges 5:27

Water he asked, milk she gave him

Yael gave Sisera milk. She seduces him and kills.

Question 16

בֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ, כָּרַע נָפָל,

Answer 16

Judges 5:27

at her feet he sunk, he fell

Sisera dying. Feet is euphemism

Question 17

הָלוֹךְ הָלְכוּ הָעֵצִים, לִמְשֹׁחַ עֲלֵיהֶם מֶלֶךְ;

Answer 17

Judges 9:8

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree: Reign thou over us.

Parable given to Avimelech after he killed all the people to become king

Question 18

הֲלֹא אֵת אֲשֶׁר יוֹרִישְׁךָ, כְּמוֹשׁ אֱלֹהֶיךָ–אוֹתוֹ תִירָשׁ

Answer 18

Judges 11:24

Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?

mocking the Amorites as they defeat them

Question 19

וְהָיָה הַיּוֹצֵא, אֲשֶׁר יֵצֵא מִדַּלְתֵי בֵיתִי לִקְרָאתִי, בְּשׁוּבִי בְשָׁלוֹם, מִבְּנֵי עַמּוֹן–וְהָיָה, לַיהוָה, וְהַעֲלִיתִיהוּ, עֹלָה

Answer 19

Judges 11:31

then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the LORD’S, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering.’ {P}

Yiftachs oath to kill whoever comes out of his door.

Question 20

לוּ חָפֵץ יְהוָה לַהֲמִיתֵנוּ לֹא-לָקַח מִיָּדֵנוּ עֹלָה וּמִנְחָה

Answer 20

Judges 13:22

But his wife said unto him: ‘If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would He have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as thes

Manoach’s wife telling him that God wouldn’t have told us this if he wanted to kill us!

Question 21

מֵהָאֹכֵל יָצָא מַאֲכָל, וּמֵעַז, יָצָא מָתוֹק;

Answer 21

Judges 14:14

Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.

Samsons riddle to the Phillistines

Question 22

לוּלֵא חֲרַשְׁתֶּם בְּעֶגְלָתִי, לֹא מְצָאתֶם חִידָתִי

Answer 22

Judges 14:18

If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

Samson telling them that they cheated by asking his wife.

Question 23

-בִּלְחִי הַחֲמוֹר, חֲמוֹר חֲמֹרָתָיִם; בִּלְחִי הַחֲמוֹר, הִכֵּיתִי אֶלֶף אִישׁ

Answer 23

Judges 15:16

And Samson said: With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

Samson goes to meet his wife but finds out her father gave her to someone else. Samson burns up a bunch of philistine fields, they campture him and then Samson kills them with a jaw of a donkey. Samson says this after he kills lot of men

Question 24

פְּלִשְׁתִּים עָלֶיךָ שִׁמְשׁוֹן

Answer 24

Judges 16:9

The Philistines are upon thee, Samson

When Delilah tries to trick Samson into telling her his secret to strength. She does what he says and then tells him this line- but he keeps breaking free anyway.

Question 25

וְאִנָּקְמָה נְקַם-אַחַת מִשְּׁתֵי עֵינַי, מִפְּלִשְׁתִּים

Answer 25

Judges 16:28

And Samson called unto the LORD, and said: ‘O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray Thee, and strengthen me, I pray Thee, only this once, O God, that I may be this once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.’

Samson praying for some strength to kill everyone in the Temple after his is captured and blinded.

Question 26

תָּמוֹת נַפְשִׁי עִם-פְּלִשְׁתִּים

Answer 26

Judges 16:30

And Samson said: ‘Let me die with the Philistines.

Samson says this right before he brings down the philistine temple to kill himself and everyone in it.

Question 27

וְהִנֵּה אַנְשֵׁי הָעִיר אַנְשֵׁי בְנֵי-בְלִיַּעַל נָסַבּוּ אֶת-הַבַּיִת

Answer 27

Judges 19:22

the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door;

The men of Givah are really bad because they want to rape the guest of the town. Shows they are like Sodom

Question 28

בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם, אֵין מֶלֶךְ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל: אִישׁ הַיָּשָׁר בְּעֵינָיו, יַעֲשֶׂה.

Answer 28

Judges 21:25

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes

The time of the Judges was not always so good because they didn’t have stead leadership. Leads into Samuel and the desire for a king.