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Judges 11
Study of the book of Judges
Question | Answer |
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Who was Jephthah? | A Gileadite, a mighty man of valor and the son of a harlot - 11:1 |
What did the half-brothers of Jephthah do to him? | They thrust him out because his mother was a harlot - 11:2 |
Where did Jephthah go after his half-brothers thrust him out? | The land of Tob - 11:3 |
Who went with Jephthah when he went to the land of Tob? | Vain men - 11:3 |
Why did the elders of Gilead seek Jephthah out to help them? | The children of Ammon made war with them - 11:4-5 |
Why did Jephthah hesitate helping the elders of Gilead? | Because of their past actions toward him - 11:6-7 |
What was the condition Jephthah gave to the elders of Gilead before he would help them? | He was to be their head (leader) - 11:8-9 |
Did the elders of Gilead agree to make Jephthah their head (leader)? | Yes - 11:10 |
Did Jephthah agree to be the head of the elders of Gilead? | Yes - 11:11 |
Who did Jephthah send messengers to about their conflict with Israel? | The king of the children of Ammon - 11:12 |
What did the messengers ask the king of the children of Ammon? | What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land - 11:12 |
What was the claim of the king of the children of Ammon to the Israelites? | You took our land away from us - 11:13 |
What did the king of the children of Ammon ask Jephthah (through his messengers) to do? | To restore those land peaceably - 11:13 |
What was Jephthah's answer to the king of the children of Ammon? | We didn't take it from you but because you would not let our ancestors pass through your land, God took it away from you when you attacked Israel - 11:14-22 |
What three nations refused to give the Israelites permission to pass through their lands? | Ammon, Edom and Moab - 17-20 |
Who was the king of the Amorites who refused to let Israel pass through? | Sihon - 11:20-21 |
What reasoning did Jephthah give to the king of the children of Ammon about the possession of the land? | If God took it away from you, why should you feel you should possess it - 11:23 |
What land did Jephthah ask the king of the children of Ammon to possess? | The land their god, Chemosh gave them - 1:24 |
Who was the king of Moab? | Balak, the son of Zippor - 11:25 |
How long had Israel possess the land that the king of the children of Ammon want Israel to give back to them? | Three Hundred years - 3:26 |
Did the king of the children of Ammon accept Jephthah's answer? | No - 11:27-28 |
What happened to Jephthah that enabled him to cross over Gilead and Manasseh to go to the children of Ammon? | The Spirit of the Lord came upon him - 11:29 |
What vow did Jephthah make if the Lord would give him the victory over Ammon? | He would sacrifice whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of his house - 11:30-31 |
Did Jephthah defeat Ammon? | Yes - 11:32-33 |
Who was the first one to come out of his house when he returned home? | His daughter who was his only child - 11:34 |
What did Jephthah do when he saw his daughter come out of his house? | He rent his clothes as he realized he had made a foolish vow - 11:35 |
What was the response of Jephthah's daughter when he told her what he had said? | She told him to do as he had promised God - 11:36 |
What request did Jephthah's daughter give to Jephthah? | To give her two months to go up and down the mountains with her companions to bewail her virginity - 11:37 |
Did Jephthah agree to his daughter's request? | Yes - 11:38 |
Did Jephthah go through with his vow to God? | Yes - 11:39 |
What custom did this action initiate? | The daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year - 11:40 |