Identification & Hebrew to Know - Judges-Checked

Question 1

Deborah,

Answer 1

Judge and Prophetess, Tells Barak to defeat king Jabin

Question 2

Barak,

Answer 2

Army commander for Deborah. Defeats Sisera on Mount Tabor

Question 3

Yael,

Answer 3

Offers hospitality to Sisera, then kills him in his sleep. Later shows Barak where the body is.

Question 4

Sisera

Answer 4

Captain of King Jabin’s Army. After fleeing from Barak and the Israelite army, he is killed by Yael who seduced him.

Question 5

Gideon and the angel, the altar

Answer 5

Gideon makes a sacrifice of meat, bread, and broth. The Angel sets it all on fire. Gideon realizes he has seen an angel and is afraid; but God reaasures him. Gideon builds an altar on the spot.– Destroys the alter of Baal and gets a new name, ירבעל

Question 6

ירבעל

Answer 6

“He will fight Ba’al”. Gideon’s nickname because he tore down Ba’als altar.

Question 7

Avimelech

Answer 7

Gideon’s son, he kills his brothers so that he can become the king of Shechem

Question 8

משל יותם

Answer 8

Parable of why Avimelech should NOT be king

Question 9

Yiftach, Yiftach’s daughter

Answer 9

Makes an oath that if he is victoriaous in battle he will sacrafice the first thing that goes out of his door, it was his daughter

Question 10

Manoah, Manoah’s Wife

Answer 10

Parents of Sampson. Angel visits Manoah’s wife and tells her that she will have a son who will be special. Manoah wants to see the angel himself, but when he does he is afraid that they are going to die.

Question 11

מיכיהו

Answer 11

Man from ephraim who builds a “home” altar and has a levite serve as his priest.

Question 12

Micah’s priest and the tribe of Dan

Answer 12

While searching for a new territory they pass through Ephraim and take Micah’s priest to be pries over all of Dan instead of just one man’s house

Question 13

פילגש בגבעה

Answer 13

Concubine was raped and killed when she was in Givah (Benjaminite). The husband chopped her up and sent her dismembered parts to all the tibes to show what had happened. All of Israel turns against the tribe of Benhamin

Question 14

לֵךְ וְאַרְאֶךָּ אֶת-הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה מְבַקֵּשׁ

Answer 14

Yael says this to Barak. Barak asks to see Sisera, and Yael shows Barak Sisera’s corpse.

Question 15

מַיִם שאַל, חָלָב נָתָנָה

Answer 15

“He asked for water, she gave him milk”. Line in the song of Deborah, about how Yael tricks Sisera

Question 16

בֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ, כָּרַע נָפַל שָׁכָב

Answer 16

“Between her legs he kneeled, dropped and slept” Line in Deborah’s victory song about how Yael killed Sisera when he was sleeping. Probably after the two had sex.

Question 17

הָלוֹךְ הָלְכוּ הָעֵצִים לִמְשֹׁחַ עֲלֵיהֶם מֶלֶךְ

Answer 17

“The trees went forth to anoint a king over them. And they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’” Parable of why Avimelech should NOT be king

Question 18

הֲלֹא אֵת אֲשֶׁר יוֹרִישְׁךָ, כְּמוֹשׁ אֱלֹהֶיךָ–אוֹתוֹ תִירָשׁ

Answer 18

Yiftach mocking the Amorites as they defeat them “Will you not possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to posses?”

Question 19

וְהָיָה הַיּוֹצֵא, אֲשֶׁר יֵצֵא מִדַּלְתֵי בֵיתִי לִקְרָאתִי, בְּשׁוּבִי בְשָׁלוֹם, מִבְּנֵי עַמּוֹן–וְהָיָה, לַיהוָה, וְהַעֲלִיתִיהוּ, עֹלָה

Answer 19

Yiftach’s vow that he will offer whatever comes through his door to God… It was his daughter..

Question 20

לוּ חָפֵץ יְהוָה לַהֲמִיתֵנוּ לֹא-לָקַח מִיָּדֵנוּ עֹלָה וּמִנְחָה

Answer 20

Manoah’s wife to him after he sees the angel and is afraid they are going to die. She says that God would not have accepted their sacrafice or wasted time talking to them if they God wanted to kill them

Question 21

מֵהָאֹכֵל יָצָא מַאֲכָל, וּמֵעַז, יָצָא מָתוֹק

Answer 21

One of Samson’s riddles to the Phillistines. “Out of the eater came food, and out of the strong came sweetness”

Question 22

לוּלֵא חֲרַשְׁתֶּם בְּעֶגְלָתִי, לֹא מְצָאתֶם חִידָתִי

Answer 22

Samson’s response when they solve his riddle– “If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle”

Question 23

בִּלְחִי הַחֲמוֹר, חֲמוֹר חֲמֹרָתָיִם; בִּלְחִי הַחֲמוֹר, הִכֵּיתִי אֶלֶף אִישׁ

Answer 23

Samson kicking Phillistine butt with the jawbone of an ass “With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.
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Question 24

פְּלִשְׁתִּים עָלֶיךָ שִׁמְשׁוֹן

Answer 24

Delilah testing Samson to see if he really told her the secret to his strength

Question 25

וְאִנָּקְמָה נְקַם-אַחַת מִשְּׁתֵי עֵינַי, מִפְּלִשְׁתִּים

Answer 25

Samson asks God for his strength one last time so that he can get vengence on the Phillistines “that I may be this once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

Question 26

תָּמוֹת נַפְשִׁי עִם-פְּלִשְׁתִּים

Answer 26

Samson says this right before he destroys the Phillistine temple and kills himself and everyone in it “Let me die with the Philistines.”

Question 27

וְהִנֵּה אַנְשֵׁי הָעִיר אַנְשֵׁי בְנֵי-בְלִיַּעַל נָסַבּוּ אֶת-הַבַּיִת

Answer 27

The men of Givah trying to get into the house so that they can rape the guest. Shows them to be like the men of Sodom

Question 28

בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם, אֵין מֶלֶךְ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל: אִישׁ הַיָּשָׁר בְּעֵינָיו, יַעֲשֶׂה

Answer 28

“In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” Leads into the Book of Samuel and the people’s desire to have a King. The period of the Judges was not always good becuase there was not steady leadership

Question 29

How is the political, national, and religious situation in the Book of Judges different from the description in Book of Joshua?

Answer 29

The tribes are fractured, working independently from each other. No centralized authority. There are Canaanites and Philistines and all manner of non-Israelite active in the Land, often conquering the Israelites.

Question 30

Where are the various chieftans from? What is the geographic area of each one’s activity?

Answer 30

Almost all Judges come from the Northern tribes. They primarily work in the North.

Question 31

What generalizations about this period and type of leadership emerge from the Book as a whole?

Answer 31

leaders are charismatic, temporary, non-dynastic, and non-normative (they do not act as a the Deuteronomic religious system says they should)

Question 32

How do the stories carry different levels of meaning depending on the various levels of redaction- episodes, story cycles, the book as a whole?

Answer 32

On the episodic/story cycle level, we see a cycle of sin, punishment, outcry, chieftan rising to deliver the people, and a peaceful period. Taken as a whole, the pattern shows a chaotic cycle in which a decentralized Israelite population keeps falling into trouble without a centralized authority to lead them.

Question 33

What editorial viewpoint emerges from the inclusion of the last two stories, that of Micah’s priest and the rape of the concubine at Gilbeah?

Answer 33

The way in which worship of God is being practiced is flawed, and a lack of central leadership (political and religious) leads to barbarism and potentially pagan religious practices.