Questions on the Book of Judges

Narrator: Ivona Gentwo
 •  4 min. read  •  grade level: 4
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Chapter 1
1. What did Judah do to the Canaanites?
2. Tell me about Caleb's daughter?
3. Who took Bethel?
Chapter 2
1. Why did The angel go from Gilgal to Bochim?
2. What wrong thing had the people done?
3. What did the children of Israel do after the death of Joshua?
4. How did the Lord treat them?
5. By whom did the Lord help them?
6. When Israel transgressed His covenant, what did the Lord say?
Chapter 3
1. Why did the Lord leave some of the wicked people in the land?
2. Why did they serve false gods?
3. What deliverer did God send?
4. How long did Israel serve the king of Moab?
5. How long had the land rest?
Chapter 4
1. How long did the Canaanites oppress Israel?
2. Who was Deborah?
3. How was Sisera killed?
Chapter 5
1. How do you know that Joel's act was a right one?
2. What did they praise the. Lord for?
3. How long did the land rest after this victory?
Chapter 6
1. How long was the next captivity of Israel?
2. When did the Lord send a prophet to Israel?
3. What did the prophet say?
4. Whom else did the Lord send?
5. What kind of man was Gideon?
6. What did the Lord say He sent Gideon to do?
7. What did Gideon want a sign for?
8. What sign did God give Gideon?
9. Why did Gideon call his altar Jehovah Shalom?
10. What did the Lord say to Gideon in the night?
11. Why was the destruction of Baal the first thing Gideon must do?
12. What new power did Gideon receive from God?
13. What sign did Gideon ask for?
Chapter 7
1. Why did the Lord say that the people were too many?
2. Why did the twenty-two thousand go back?
3. How did God prove who was fit to go with Gideon?
4. Why were the three hundred more fit than the rest?
5. What did they carry to battle?
6. How did God confirm Gideon's faith?
7. What was Gideon's word of command?
8. How did they overcome the Midianites?
9. How did the Ephraimites help?
Chapter 8
1. How did the men of Succoth offend the servant of the Lord?
2. What was their punishment?
3. Why did he punish the men of Penuel?
4. Why did Gideon refuse to be made king?
5. Why was Gideon's ephod a snare to him?
6. How long had the land rest?
7. How did the children of Israel treat Gideon's family?
Chapter 9
1. What was the meaning of Abimelech's parable?
2. How were the men of Shechem punished?
3. How was Abimelech punished?
Chapter 10
1. How long wore the children of Israel oppressed this time?
2. What sad confession did Israel make?
3. What answer did God give them?
4. How did the Lord feel about Israel?
Chapter 11
1. What sort of man was Jephthah?
2. What excuse did the children of Ammon give for going to fight with, Israel?
3. What answer did Jephthah give them?
4. What sad mistake did Jephthah make?
5. What was the difference between Jephthah's act, and that of Abraham when he offered up his only son?
Chapter 12
1. How did Jephthah treat the Ephraimites?
Chapter 13
1. How long did the Philistines oppress Israel?
2. What was remarkable about the deliverer that God raised up this time?
3. Why did God make Samson a Nazarite?
4. How did Manoah's wife shew that she believed in God's favor?
5. Where did the Spirit of the' Lord lead Samson?
Chapter 14
1. How did Samson grieve his parents?
2. What purpose had the Lord in it?
3. What was Samson's riddle?
4. How did Samson pay what he had promised?
5. What became of the woman he was going to marry?
Chapter 15
1. How did Samson take revenge?
2. What punishment did the woman get?
3. Who went against Samson?
4. But who was with him?
5. What act of power did he perform?
Chapter 16
1. What wonderful thing did Samson do in the middle of the night?
2. What snare did the Philistines set for Samson?
3. Why did it not succeed?
4. What was Samson's secret?
5. Why ought he not to tell Delilah?
6. What terrible discovery did Samson make as soon as he had told his secret?
7. What else did they take from him besides his hair?
8. What did Samson ask the Lord to do?
9. What is said about those he slew at his death?
10. How long did he judge Israel?
Chapter 17
1. How is the State of Israel described in this chapter?
Chapter 20
1. How did they want to "put away evil from Israel?”
2. Who did not wish to put away the evil?
3. Why did God allow those who were right to be discouraged?
4. Who was the priest in those days?
5. How did the children of Israel get clear of the evil?
Chapter 21
1. What was the cause of their sorrow?
2. What does the Book of Judges teach you about God?