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Judges 6
Study of the book of Judges
Question | Answer |
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After the victory over Sisera and the forty years of rest, who did the Lord deliver the children of Israel into the hands of? | Midian for seven years - 6:1 |
What did the children of Israel do because of the Midianites? | Dens in the mountains and caves and strongholds - 6:2 |
Who joined the Midianites to come against Israel? | The Amalekites and the children of the east (?Moab?) - 6:3 |
What did the armies of the Midianites, Amalekites and the children of the east destroy? | The increase of the earth (crops), sheep, oxen and donkeys - 6:4 |
Why did the enemy of Israel (numbered as grasshoppers for multitude) enter their land with their camels? | To destroy the land - 6:5 |
What became of the Israelites? | They were impoverished - 6:6 |
What did the children of Israel do because of the Midianites? | They cried unto the Lord - 6:7 |
Who did God send to the Israelites when they were oppressed by the Midianites? | A prophet (unnamed) - 6:8 |
What sin did the unnamed prophet tell Israel they had committed? | They had disobeyed the Lord - 6:10 |
Who did an angel of the Lord come to in Ophrah? | Gideon - 6:11 |
Where did the angel sit? | Under an oak which was in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abieszrite - 6:11 |
Who was Gideon hiding his wheat from? The Midianites - 6:11 | The Midianites - 6:11 |
What did the angel call Gideon? | A Mighty man of Valor - 6:12 |
What did the angel say to Gideon? | The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor - 6:12 |
How did Gideon respond to the angel when the angel said the Lord is with thee? | If the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us - 6:13 |
What did the Lord say to Gideon? | Go in thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites; have I not sent thee - 6:14 |
Why did Gideon question the Lord's request? | His family was poor and he was the least in his father's house - 6:15 |
What did Gideon ask from the angel? | A Sign - 6:17 |
What did the angel do to give Gideon a sign? | He used his staff to bring fire from the rock that the meat and unleavened bread was sitting on - 6:19-21 |
What did Gideon call the altar he built where the angel met him? | Jehovah-Shalom (Jehovah sends peace) - 6:24 |
What did God ask Gideon to destroy? | His father's altar to Baal - 6:25 |
What was Gideon to do after he tore down his father's altar to Baal? | Build an altar to the Lord and take the second bullock of seven years of age and offer it as a sacrifice to the Lord - 6:25-26 |
How many men helped Gideon build an altar to God and offer the sacrifice? | Ten men - 6:17 |
Why did Gideon build the altar at night? | Because he feared his father's household and the men of the city - 6:27 |
what did the men of the city ask Joash, the father of Gideon, to do? | To bring Gideon out to them so they could kill him - 6:29-30 |
What did Joash say to the men of the city? | Let the people who plead for Baal be put to death and see if Baal will save them - 6:31 |
What did Joash, the father of Gideon call his son? | Jerubbaal - 6:32 |
Where did the Midianites, Amalekites and the children of the east make camp? | In the valley of Jezreel - 6:33 |
Who did Gideon send messengers to about the need to fight the Midianites, Amalekites and the children of the east? Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali - 6:35 | Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali - 6:35 |
What sign did Gideon ask from God to prove He would be with them in battle? | The fleece he put out would be wet but not the ground around it - 6:37 |
What happened the morning after Gideon first put out a fleece for God to prove He would be with them in battle? | It was wet and the ground around was not wet - 6:38 |
How much water did Gideon wring out of the fleece? | A bowl full - 6:38 |
What was Gideon's second request? | To let the fleece be dry and the ground around it to be wet - 6:39 |
What happened the second night with the fleece? | It was dry and the ground around it was wet - 6:40 |