The BOOK OF JUDGES

CHAPTER ONE

1. What man of God had died when the book opens up? ____________
2. Which tribe did God want to go fight the Canaanites first?_________
3. Which tribe did this tribe get to go help them in the battle against the Canaanites? _____________
4. What king fled from them? _________________
5. When they caught him they cut off what? _______________   and   ________   ________
6. Judah fought against the Canaanites in Hebron. What was the other name for Hebron? ______________________
7. What man promised to give his daughter in marriage to the one who conquered Kirjathsepher? ____________
8. Who conquered the city? ________________
9. Which two springs did this man give to his daughter? ____________   and   ______________
10. Hebron was given unto Caleb. Whose sons did he drive out in order to have this land? ________
11. Who did the tribe of Benjamin fail to drive out? ________________
12. What was Bethel called first? __________
13. When Israel was strong they forced the Canaanites to pay what?   __________________

CHAPTER TWO

14. The angel of the Lord came from where to Bochim? ______________
15. What is it that God would never break? _________________
16. Part of this agreement was that Israel would make no what with the inhabitants of the land? _______________
17. Because Israel did not obey God what would become a snare to them?   ____________   __________
18. How old was Joshua at his death? ___________
19. In what mount did they bury him? ______________
20. The next generation after Joshua and the elders did not know who?
______   ________
21. What false god did they begin to serve? ____________
22. What other false god is mentioned as being one that Israel bowed down to? ________________
23. What did God raise up to deliver the people out of the hands of the spoilers? ____________
24. How did they (Israel) turn from the way which their fathers walked in? _____________
25. What word describes the way or behavior of the people over the years of this book? __________________

CHAPTER THREE

26. Why did God leave some nations? ____________   __________
27. How many lords of the Philistines were there? ______
28. God would use these nations to see if Israel would do what to his commandments? _________________
29. What six nations are listed as the ones among whom Israel would dwell?
    1. __________________
    2. ______________
    3. ____________________
    4. __________________
    5. _______________
    6. ___________________
30. Who was the king of Mesopotamia? ________________________
31. How many years did they serve him? _________
32. Who was the first judge whom god raised up? _______________
33. How long did he serve in this capacity? __________ years
34. When he died, Israel again sinned against God. What king did God bring against them at this time? ______________
35. Moab formed a coalition with what other two nations in its battle against Israel? ___________   and   _____________
36. How many years did they serve Moab? ________________
37. What judge did God raise up in response to the cries of His children?   _____________
38. When Ehud went in to see the king of Moab, he hid a dagger on himself. Where did he hide it? ____________   ____________
39. How long was the dagger? _____________
40. The king of Moab was a very _______ man
41. Where did Ehud stab him? ____________
42. Where did Ehud escape to? _________________
43. When Ehud organized the army they took the fords of where? ____________________
44. How many men of Moab did they kill? __________ _________________
45. How long was there peace in the land? __________ years

CHAPTER FOUR

46. After Ehud died, what king did God use to punish His people? _______________
47. Who was the captain of his host? ______________
48. Where did this man live? _________________
49. How many years were they oppressed this time? _____________
50. Who was the wife of Lapidoth? ________________
51. Besides being a judge, what else was she? _________________
52. Who did she summon to help her in the coming battle? ___________________
53. Would this man go into battle if this woman was not with him? ____
54. Where did they go to have this battle against the king of Canaan? ____________
55. Sisera learned that Barak had gone into what mount? ____________
56. In the battle how many men did Barak have with him? _______   _________________
57. Whose tent did Sisera flee to? _________ the wife of ___________
58. While he was sleeping what did she drive into his temple? ________

CHAPTER FIVE

59. In the song of Deborah how did the people offer themselves? ______________________
60. Deborah describes herself as a what in Israel? ______________
61. What was in the gates when the people chose new gods? _________
62. What were the people to rehearse? _______________   ________ _____ _______   _________
63. The divisions of Reuben were what? _________   ____________   _____ __________ and ________   ________________   _____   __________
64. What two tribes jeopardized their lives in the high places of the field? ______________ and ________________
65. They fought the kings of Canaan by what waters? _____________
66. What city was cursed because they did not come to the help of the Lord? _____________
67. Who looked out a window and cried through the lattice, looking for Sisera? ______   ____________
68. How long did the land have rest? __________   _________

CHAPTER SIX

69. Who next did God deliver Israel to because of their sins? _____________
70. How long was this slavery? ________   _________
71. Where did Israel strive to hide? ________ , _____________ and ____________ __________
72. This nation which persecuted Israel had help from the children of the east and who else? _________________
73. These raiders came in and left no what for Israel? _______________
74. When the people cried out to God, he sent a prophet to remind them of when they were slaves where? __________
75. Gideon thrashed wheat by the winepress to do what from the Midianites? _________ it.
76. When Gideon beheld all the misery of Israel he wanted to know where are the what? ___________________
77. Which tribe was Gideon associated with? ____________
78. What two things did Gideon prepare for the angel? _________ and ______________   __________
79. When the angel touched these two things with his staff, what came out of the rock? _________
80. Gideon built an altar and called it what? _______________________
81. Gideon was told by God to throw down the altar of who? _________
82. Who did this altar belong to? Gideon's _______________
83. At what time of day did Gideon accomplish this? _____________
84. What name was given to Gideon because of his action against the false god? _________________
85. Aside from his own tribe, what other three tribes were called for this coming battle? __________ ________________ and _____________________
86. The test by Gideon to see if God was with was if the dew was on the what? ______________   _____   ____________

CHAPTER SEVEN

87. By which well did they assemble? ______________
88. God saw the number of the army was too great. If they won the battle with so large a number God said that the people would say what? ________   _______ _________   _________   _________   ______
89. The first group to be cut was those who were ___________ and ___________
90. How many thousand were left after this?   _________
91. The next group which was cut was those who at the water's edge did what? ___________   ________ _______ _________ ________ ______ __________   ____________
92. After this second cutting, how many were left? _________ ______________
93. What servant did Gideon take with him to spy on the camp of the enemy? _____________
94. How many companies did Gideon divide his army into?   _________
95. Gideon told the people to shout what? ______ __________ _____ ________ __________, _______   _____   ___________
96. What two princes of the enemy were killed?   __________ and _________

CHAPTER EIGHT

97. Who was mad with Gideon because they were not called into the battle sooner? _______________
98. What was the first place Gideon came to and sought bread for his army? _______________
99. What was the next place to refuse him and his army? _______________
100. Who were the two kings whom Gideon pursued? ____________ and _________________
101. Who was Gideon's first born child?   _____________
102. Gideon declared that neither he nor his son would rule over them, but rather who would rule? _______   __________
103. Gideon wanted jewelry from the people from all the ones they had defeated. He took the golden earrings and made them into what? ______________
104. How many years was there peace under Gideon? _________

CHAPTER NINE

105. Abimelech was the son of Gideon through the concubine. He took silver from the house of what false god? _____________________
106. He used the money to hire what kind of men to follow him? ________ and ___________
107. Abimelech killed his half-brothers. Which one escaped? __________
108. All the people then made Abimelech what? _________
109. When the “trees of the forest” sought for someone to lead them, all refused except which one? _________________
110. The son of Gideon fled for his life to where? ________
111. The men of Shechem put their confidence in whom? _________
112. Abimelech defeated this man and afterward dwelt where? _______________
113. When Abimelech attacked Shechem the men of the city went to the tower of the house of which false god? ____________
114. Abimelech set fire to the tower, how many died? ______________ men and women.
115. What was the next city Abimelech sought to take? _____________
116. Abimelech sought to set fire to the tower in this city as well. A woman threw a piece of what from the tower and struck Abimelech in the head? _____________________
117. Did this action by the woman directly kill Abimelech? ________

CHAPTER TEN

118. After the death of Abimelech who was the next man to judge Israel? __________
119. How long did he judge or rule? _________ years
120. The next judge was who? _________
121. How many years did he judge? __________
122. How many sons did he have? ___________
123. The people began once more to serve false gods. What two false gods are mentioned by name? ___________   and   _______________
124. What two nations did God sell them to? _______________ and _____________
125. How many years were God's people oppressed by these nations?
126. God told Israel when they first cried unto Him, that He would not do what for them this time? ______________
127. God told them to cry out to their false gods and allow the false gods to deliver them out of what? ________________
128. The people responded by putting away what? ___________   _________
129. God's soul was grieved for what? ___________   _____   ____________

CHAPTER ELEVEN

130. Jephthah is described as a son of and what? ___________
131. His half brothers cast him out because they said he was the son of what kind of woman? _____________
132. Where did Jephthah go to live after his brothers threw him out? ____
133. The elders of what city called on Jephthah to lead them into battle against the Ammonites? _____________
134. Jephthah agreed to lead them but if they were successful he wanted to be what over the people? __________
135. The children of Ammon said there would be no fighting if Israel would restore what again (that is give back to the Ammonites)? ___________
136. Jephthah showed the history of how Israel was wanting to just pass through the lands but Ammon and the others refused. During this time, who was the king of the Amorites? ___________
137. Who is the false god of the Amorites? _______________
138. During this time when Israel was trying to pass through these lands, who was the king of Moab? ______________
139. How many years were involved in which the disputed lands could have been settled? _______   ______________
140. Jephthah promised God that if God would give him the victory over Ammon that he would give God whatsoever cometh from the what of his house? __________
141. After the success of the battle who came out to meet him? _____________
142. Could or would Jephthah go back on his vow to God? ______
143. This person asked for how long to be left alone? _______   __________
144. The text of the scripture shows us what had to happen because of this vow. This person _______   _____   ______
145. Each year the daughters of Israel would remember this how many days? _________

CHAPTER TWELVE

146. What men came against Jephthah because he did not call them to war with the Ammonites? _____________
147. The Gileadites (men of Jephthah) fought against these men (previous question) and took the passages of Jordan. Those who were trying to escape were stopped and asked to say what word? __________________
148. The people of question #146 could not frame this word. When they said it, it came out how? ________________
149. If they could not pronounce it, they were what? __________
150. After the death of Jephthah what judge ruled? ___________
151. How many years did he judge? ________
152. The next judge ruled for ten years; his name was _________
153. What is the last judge mentioned in this chapter? _________

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

154. Israel sinned again. Who did God use this time? _____________
155. How many years were they in subjection this time? ______
156. God told Manoah's wife that she would have a son. She was not to drink _______ nor _________   __________ or to eat any ___________ ___________
157. What was never to come on the head of the child she would have? __________
158. Manoah wanted the Lord to send the angel back in order for them (Manoah and his wife) to be able to teach them what? what _____ _______ _____   _______ _______   _________   ________ _________ _____   ________
159. Did the angel tell Manoah his name? ______
160. Samson was the name of the child. God moved him at times in what camp? _________

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

161. Samson found him a woman he wanted for his wife. Where did he find her, among whom? _________________
162. When Samson went down to Timnath to get his wife, he was attacked by what animal? _____________
163. Later on what was in the carcass of this animal? ___________ ______ _________ and ____________
164. At the wedding Samson gave the men of the city a riddle; if they could solve it he would give them thirty changes of garments; if they could not they would give him 30 changes of garments. What was the riddle? _______ _______ ______   _________   ________ _________   ________, and _______ ________ ________ _________   _________   _____________
165. How many days did Samson's wife pout and cry to get him to tell her the riddle? _______________
166. Did Samson tell her the meaning? ________
167. What city did Samson go to and kill 30 Philistines? __________________

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

168. Later on Samson goes to be with his wife. Her father thought Samson hated her and had then given her to whom? Samson's ______________
169. How many foxes did Samson catch? ___________
170. Tying their tails together, he put fire between the foxes and let them loose into what kind of field of the Philistines? ___________
171. In retaliation the Philistines killed Samson's _________ and her _______________
172. What rock did Samson go to after slaughtering the Philistines? _____
173. The men of Judah came to Samson. He asked if they intended to kill him and they said no. They then tied Samson up and brought him to the Philistines. As the Philistines came near, he broke the ropes he was tied with and attacked the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. How many did he kill? ________________
174. The name of this place is called what? ________________
175. God provided water in a miraculous way, Samson called the named of this place, what? ________________________

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

176. What city did Samson go to where the people of the city plotted his death? ___________
177. At what time did Samson awake? ________________
178. He placed the gates of the city on his shoulders and carried them to the top of a hill that was before where? ____________________
179. What valley did Delilah come from? _____________
180. The five lords of the Philistines told her they would each give her how much to betray Samson? ____________ _______________ ______________ ________ _______________
181. How many times did Samson trick her before he finally told her the secret of his strength? ___________
182. After the Philistines blinded Samson, where did they take him? ______________
183. Who was the god of the Philistines? ________________
184. How many people were present when Samson brought the house down? __________   __________________

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

185. What was the name of the man who had a house of gods? _____________
186. Who did he first make a priest for him? _________
187. He then met a Levite whom he paid to be his priest. Where was the Levite from? _________________________

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

188. How many men did the tribe of Dan send to spy out the land? __________
189. How many men were in the war party? _________   _________________
190. The war party took the idols created by Micah and his priest. When Micah overtook them with his army, what question did the men of Dan ask him?   _________   __________   __________,   _________   ___________   ______________   _________   __________   ______   _______________?
191. After the battle we are told that the house of God was where? ______________

CHAPTER NINETEEN

192. The concubine which ran away from the Levite was gone how long? __________   ______________
193. The husband came to get his wife. He spoke kindly with her. He then spent how many days with his father-in-law? __________
194. On what day did he leave his father-in-law? ____________
195. What city did they come to? _______________
196. The men of the city came and wanted to have the man. Instead he gave them what? ______________________

CHAPTER TWENTY

197. What tribe was this city located in where this horrible event took place? __________________
198. Did the people of this tribe agree to give up the men of the city who had done this deed? __________
199. Which tribe did God want to go up first to battle? ______________
200. Judah lost the first battle. How many thousand died? ________
201. The second battle was also lost. How many thousand died? _______
202. On the third day Judah was victorious. How many thousand of the enemy tribe died? ____________
203. When the trap was sprung how thousand of the enemy tribe died? ________

     CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

204. At the altar what kind of offerings were made? ______________ and _____________
205. The inhabitants of which city had not come up? ___________________
206. How many virgins did they find in this city? ________   _______________
207. These women did not settle the problem. Where then did the tribe get the women? ________________
208. Because there was no king, every person did what was right, how? _______ _________   _________   __________