BT: the Period of the Judges Trivia Quiz

Answer: Adoni-Bezek

Judges 1:4-5. The last king Joshua overthrew before dying. Soon after, Israel possessed the land of Canaan.

Answer: They cut off his thumbs and big toes

Judges 1:6. Adoni-Bezek did the same things to 70 other kings of the world. Soon after, Joshua died beginning the cycle of Judges.

Answer: 110

Judges 2:8. After Joshua's death, the children of Israel began to sin. Thus beginning the era of the Judges.

Answer: Othniel

Judges 3:9. Othniel was the son of Kenaz, nephew of Caleb, and husband to Achsah, his cousin. He also overthrew the city of Kirjathsepher.

Answer: Mesopotamia

Judges 3:10. After overthrowing King Chushanrishathaim of Mesopotamia, Israel had peace for 40 years. All thanks to Othniel.

Answer: Moab

Judges 3:12. Eglon was the King of Moab at this time and harmed Israel with help of Amalek. He suppressed Israel for 18 years.

Answer: Ehud

Judges 3:15. Israel cried unto God, so he gave them a deliverer. Ehud the Son of Gera was the second Judge of Israel after years of oppression by Moab.

Answer: Ehud was left-handed and Eglon was overweight

Judges 3:15-17. Funny how God uses a man's weakness toward His strengths. Ehud's left-handedness is considered to be a weakness by most. Eglon's fatness proved to have a purpose in this story as well.

Answer: He stabbed him in his belly with a homemade dagger

Judges 3:18-26. Ehud sought to kill King Eglon to start Israel's rebellion against Moab. He did give a tribute to King Eglon. Then, he sent away those who went with him. He said that he had a secret message for the king. Eglon sent everyone but Ehud outside.

The message was no message, it was a dagger that Ehud made himself, concealed under his clothes on his right leg in a scabbard. He drew it, then stabbed the king in the belly.

Answer: The fat of King Eglon swallowed the blade up.

Judges 3:22. Ehud stabbed Eglon so hard that his bowels discharged. Then Ehud led an army against Moab. Together, they slew 10,000 Moabites, and Ehud reigned for 80 years of peace.

Answer: Shamgar

Judges 3:31. After Ehud's reign, Shamgar also delivered Israel. This all what we are told of Shamgar.

Answer: Deborah

Judges 4:4. Her reign began after Jabin, king of Canaan and his general, Sisera oppressed Israel for 20 years. Thus began the deliverance of Israel from the Canaanites.

Answer: both

Judges 4:6-9. After this Barak and his men overwhelmed Sisera and his men on Mt. Tabor. Sisera was the sole survivor of the slaughter. Sisera would flee to Heber and Jael's tent where his fate would lie.

Answer: drove a tent peg through his head

Judges 4:21. Thus completing Deborah's warning to Barak. After this, Jael let Barak see Sisera dead with the peg in his head. They sang a song of praise and Deborah was Judge for 40 years.

Answer: farmer

Judges 6:11. Gideon was chosen to deliver Israel from Midian, by the Lord through an Angel, for Midian was causing Israel to hide in caves and rocks.

Answer: 300

Judges 7. Gideon took 300 men to fight against the army of the Midianites. They unusually won by blowing trumpets and smashing jars which contained torches. The Midianites got scared and started attacking themselves.

Answer: in a good old age

Judges 8:32. He died after 40 years serving as Judge leaving 70 sons. One of them was Abimelech who slew all but one of his brothers.

Answer: he was stabbed by his own servant

Judges 9:53-57. Abimelech was hit by the millstone on his head but he survived it despite it breaking his skull. He told his servant to kill him so that way people wouldn't say a woman killed him.

Answer: Tola and Jair

Judges 10:3-4. Tola reigned 23 years, and Jair reigned 22 years. Barak and Benaiah aren't considered Judges.

Answer: he was the son of a harlot

Judges 11:1-2. What strange ways. Why hate on someone born from a FORMER harlot?
After Jephthah was born, his mother stopped her harloting.

Answer: his virgin daugther

Judges 11:30-40. He did keep his vow, but did not do it immediately. He allowed his daughter two months to see her friends, and after that she was sacrificed.

Answer: Shibboleth

Judges 12:6-7. Jephthah killed 42,000 Ephraimites due to this tactic. One of them said, "Sibboleth" instead of "Shibboleth". Shibboleth means a custom, principle, or a belief distinguishing a certain class or a group of people.

Answer: Don't shave your own hair

Judges 13. Samson grew up to deliver Israel from the Philistines. Nothing was supposed to cut his hair, the source of his strength, for Samson was raised as a Nazarite.

Answer: Kill 30 men at Ashkelon and robbed them of their clothes

Judges 14:19. At Samson's wedding, Samson made a bet saying that if the 30 companions could solve his riddle, he would give them one set of clothes apiece. He based the riddle off of his encounter with a lion on his way to visit his fiancée. The riddle was, "Out of the eater, came forth meat: Out of the strong, came forth sweetness." The companions could not figure out the answer.

They told Samson's fiancée to seduce Samson into giving her the answer, but if she refused to do it, they would burn her house down with fire.

Then the seventh day of the feast came. The companions figured out the riddle saying, "What is sweeter than honey, what is stronger than a lion?" Samson was angry, yet he honored the bet. Later, he took 300 foxes, tied them tail to tail, put torches between the tails and sent them into Philistine crops to burn them all.

Answer: Let me die with the Philistines

Judges 16:30. After Samson was tricked into revealing the secret to his powers by Delilah, he was blinded and taken away by the Philistines. While at a party at Dagon's temple, the guests wanted to see the weakened Samson so they could make fun of him. Samson was brought to the main pillars of the temple, one on his left, one on his right.

Then Samson prayed to God for one last time to get revenge on his enemies for taking his eyes, and bringing Israel away from their rule. Then Samson said these words, pushed the pillars with all his might, and broke down the house killing himself; with him more Philistines were killed at his death than his whole lifetime.

He led Israel for 20 years.