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Othniel. Othniel was the first judge to rule over Israel. He was Caleb's nephew. Othniel ruled for 40 years, though not much is said of his time as judge. The record of his judgeship is mentioned in Judges 3:7-11.
Ehud. Ehud was left-handed, a trait that was considered a handicap at this time. God used his left-handedness to bring victory to the Israelites. He ruled in conjunction with Shamgar. His period is detailed in Judges 3:12-31.
farmer. Gideon was threshing wheat when an angel of the Lord came to him and told him that he was to rescue the Israelites from the Midianites. Gideon's story is told in Judges 6-8.
Abimelech. Judges 9 tells the story of the evil Abimelech. Abimelech was the son of Gideon and one his concubines. Jotham was the youngest brother, and he escaped Abimelech's murderous rampage. Joash was Gideon's father, and Jerubaal is what the people called Gideon.
| Gideon built an object as praise to God, however the people began to worship the object instead of God. What was this object? | When the Judges Ruled Israel
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golden ephod. Gideon built the sacred ephod to praise God for the victory He brought to the Israelites. But, of course, the Israelites worshipped the ephod instead of God.
| Jephthah made a rash vow to God. He promised that if God gave him victory over the enemies of Israel, Jephthah would sacrifice what? | When the Judges Ruled Israel
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the first thing that came out of his house. Jephthah vowed to God that he would sacrifice the first thing that came out of his house to greet him when he returned home - but when he returned home, his daughter was first. This story is in Judges 11.
Delilah. This story is told in Judges 16.
Her name was never mentioned. Her name was never mentioned. She was called Manoah's wife. Manoah was Samson's father.
lion. On the way to meet the Philistine woman he loved, Samson was attacked by a lion. The spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he killed the lion with his bare hands.
| Samson gave this riddle to the men at his wedding party, "From the one who eats came something to eat; out of the strong came something sweet." What is the answer to this riddle? | When the Judges Ruled Israel
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What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?. The Philistine men became very angry when they couldn't solve Samson's riddle so they threatened his bride for the answer. This event is told in Judges 14.
Samuel. Samuel was the last judge. He also dedicated Saul as the first king. His story is told in 1 Samuel.
| What does the word translated "judges" most nearly mean? | Judges
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Saviors. The judges were, at a minimum, people who delivered (or saved) Israel from its oppressors. Many of them also served as rulers of the people.
| How many judges are mentioned in the Book of Judges? | Judges
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12. They were Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tolah, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, and Samson. Some might consider Abimelech to be a 13th judge, but he is not traditionally included in the list of judges and is regarded as a usurper.
| Who is traditionally credited with writing the book of Judges? | Judges
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Samuel. The prophet Samuel traditionally receives this credit, though liberal scholars argue that the book first appeared as a poem, and was later combined with prose accounts in the 8th century B.C.
| At the beginning of Judges, Caleb offers to give his daughter as a wife to any man who can take the city of Kirjathsepher. Who succeeds in winning Achsah's hand? | Judges
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Othniel. Caleb was Othniel's uncle. Upon her marriage, Achsah asks, and receives, of her father a field and springs.
| Judges begins with the continued conquest of Caanan. Do the Jews completely drive out the Canaanites? | Judges
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No. God had commanded the utter destruction of the Caananites, but the Jews instead chose to make them tributaries and to live among them. God's reaction to this disobedience was: "Ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you" (Judges 2:2-3).
| After the conquest of Canaan, the Jews begin to serve the Lord. When do they switch courses and start to do "evil in the sight of the Lord"? | Judges
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Not long after the death of Joshua. "And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel" (Judges 2:7). However, after the death of Joshua, and after his generation passes away, a new generation that did not see the wonders of the Exodus arises, and the people begin to serve other gods. God leaves them to their own devices and own self-inflicted sufferings, intermittently showing his mercy by raising up judges to deliver them from their oppressors.
| Ehud, judge of Israel, assassinates the king of what nation? | Judges
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Moab. We are told that King Eglon was exceedingly fat, so that the folds of his fat covered the blade of Ehud's knife. We also learn that Ehud was left-handed.
| Who judged Israel after Ehud? | Judges
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Shamgar. All we know of Shamgar is that he killed six hundred Philistines with an ox goad.
| Deborah, a prophetess, judge, and warrior, fought to defeat Jabin the king of Canaan. What was the name of Jabin's captain of the host? | Judges
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Sisera. Barak was Deborah's captain, and Jael was the woman who killed Sisera by driving a tentpeg through his head. Barak refused to battle against Jabin's forces unless Deborah accompanied him. She did, but told him the honor of Sisera's defeat would be delivered into the hands of a woman — Jael.
| After Deborah's judgeship, however, the people again turn from God, and are oppressed by the Midianites. What thresher of wheat does God then raise up to deliver them? | Judges
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Gideon. Before Gideon would deliver Israel, however, he demanded a sign from the Lord: "Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said" (Judges 6:37). That was not enough, however; he then reversed the sign and asked God to do it again.
| 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? | Judges
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Abimelech. Abimelech, who slew seventy of his brethren to secure his kingship, reigned for three years. It is Saul, however, who is generally remembered as the first king of Israel. Tola became judge after Abimelech's death.
| Which judge had 30 sons, 30 cities, and 30 colts? | Judges
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Jair. See Judges 10:3-5. Abdon did not have 30 colts, but he had 70 donkeys and 40 sons.
| Puritan poet John Milton wrote a spiritualized closet drama about what judge's final days? | Judges
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Samson. John Milton, author of "Paradise Lost," also wrote "Samson Agonistes," which contains conversations between Samson, his father, and Delilah, as he is encouraged to despair of God. He repents taking his vow so lightly, and pulls the columns down upon himself.
| What strange man of Ephraim built a shrine in his own home and then paid a Levite to live with him and be his personal priest? | Judges
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Micah. Before the Levite, Micah had made his own son a priest. This seems to indicate that the Israelites were haphazardly practicing their religion, without following the laws of Moses.
| What tribe killed the people of Laish, burned the city, set up a graven image, and kept their own priests? | Judges
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Dan. They persuaded Micha's Levite priest to come along with them, leaving Micah quite disheartened.
| What is the something sweet in Samson's riddle, "Out of the eater, something to eat; / out of the strong, something sweet"? | Judges
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Honey. Samson, who found a beehive in the carcass of a lion and took the honey, poses this riddle at his wedding feast. His thirty companions get the answer right, having learned it from his wife. Consequently, he must pay them with clothing, which he obtains by striking down and robbing thirty men of Ashkelon.
Lapidoth. Judges 4:4 "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time." The name Lapidoth means enlightened; lamps.
Sisera. Judges 4:7 "And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand." Sisera was a cruel man who ruled the Israelites for about twenty years.
Gideon. Judges 6:11 "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites." Gideon was also called Jerobaal. He was considered one of the greater judges of Israel.
1. Judges 11:34 "And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter." Jephthah was often wronged but he never held ill-will in his heart toward people. He was one of the great men in the Old Testament.
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