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| What percentage of the Old Testament is narrative or story? (p.93, paragraph 1) |
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| What are the three basic ingredients of every Old Testament story? (p. 94, paragraph 3) |
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(1) characters
(2) plot
(3) plot resolution |
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| What is a protagonist. (p. 94, paragraph 3) |
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| The protagonist is the main character in the story. |
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| What are the three levels of narrative in Old Testament narrative? (p. 95, paragraphs 2-4) |
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(1) metanarrative
eg. the whole universal plan of God in salvation
(2) God redeeming a people for his name
eg. God's patient dealing with Israel
(3) individual narratives
eg. the story of Daniel or David |
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| Mr. Fee says there are two wrong ways to read Old Testament narratives. What are those two ways? (p.96, paragraphs 3-4) |
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We must NOT read them as:
(1) allegories with hidden meanings
(2) or, as morality tales |
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| What is the difference between implicit and explicit? (p. 97, paragraph 2) |
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To teach something implicitly means to do so in an indirect manner.
To teach something explciitly menas to do so directly. |
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| Give an example of a story implicitly teaching adultery is wrong. (p.97, paragraph 2) |
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| What does Mr. Fee mean when he says the narrator has a point of view and that point of view is usally God's point of view. (p. 98, paragraph 2) |
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| He means the narrator tells the story in such a way he colors the characters and events that occur in the story so that they are seen from God's perspective. |
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| Which of the following two things is more likely:(1) the author will simply tell the reader what a character is truly like, or (2) the author will show the a character's true nature by what that character says and does. (p.98, paragraph 5) |
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| The author will show rather than tell. |
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| Define "plot." (p.101, paragraph 3) |
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| Plot is the purposeful arrangement of the events of a story. Plot insists the story has a beginning , a middle, and an end. |
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| What is the principle tool authors use to move plot along? (p.101, paragraph 3) |
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| Ryken lists 3 types of conflict. What are they? (Ryken Notes p.5-6) |
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physical conflict
conflict between characters
moral conflict |
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| Ryken says if a plot is unified, it will be arranged according to a particular kind of pattern. What pattern? (Ryken Notes, p.11) |
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| What is a test motif in a story? (Ryken Notes, p.12) |
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| A test motif is often used by authors to demonstrate the character of the protagonist. It is accomplished when the author puts the protagonist into some difficult situation win that tests his character or resolve. |
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| What is a change motif in a story? (Ryken Notes, p.12) |
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| It is a story where the protagonist changes as a result of the unfolding conflict and plot. |
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| Mr. Ryken say sthat change motifs are used by an author to show the outcome of a character's choice. He says that such change motifs involve three things: antecedents, occurence, and consequences. Define those three terms? (Ryken Notes, p.13) |
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(1) antecedents
what leads up to the moment of decision
(2) occurence
teh decision the character makes...usually to do something
(3) consequences
what happens as a result |
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| What is a tragic plot? (Ryken Notes, p.14) |
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| It occurs when the protagonist undergoes a catastrophic change of fortune due to a tragic flaw. |
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| What is a punitive plot? (Ryken Notes, p.14) |
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| It is where a villain gets his just reward. |
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| What is a reform plot? (Ryken Notes, p.14) |
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| It occurs when an unsympathetic character changed for the better. |
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| What is a foil? (Ryken Notes, p.15) |
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| A foil is usually a character that sets off or accentuates the protagonist. This is usually accomplished by comparing or contrasting the foil with the protagonist. |
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| Give an example of a couple of OT characters that serve as foils to an OT protagonist.(Ryken Notes, p.15) |
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Ruth's sister-in-law serves as a foil to Ruth. ruth remianed with her mother-in-law but Orpah went back home. She is a contrast to Ruth.
Jonathan serves as foil to David notby contrast but by being parallel to David. Both men ae loyal.
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| What is poetic justice? (Ryken Notes, p.16) |
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| It occurs in a story when the good characters are finally rewarded and thebad characters punished. |
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| Ryken says that the reader should pay close attention to every detail in a biblical story. He says that because he believes every detail is put there with a ___________. (Ryken Notes, p.20) |
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| What is the piece we committed to memory to describe the structure of Judges? |
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| Two beginnings, and two endings, with seven judges on a broken seesaw in between and Gideon in the middle. |
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| What phrase is repeated over and over in the first sixteen chapters of Judges? (It is repeated at least eight times.) |
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| And Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. |
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| What phrase bookends the last four chapters of Judges? |
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| In those days there was no king in Israel and everyone did what was right in their own eyes. |
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| Which two tribes come off the best and the worst in Judges? |
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| Judah comes off the best. Benjamin comes off the worst. |
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| Who is the first judge mentioned in the Book of Judges? |
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| What famous character is Othniel related to? |
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| Caleb is his older brother |
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| What tribe is Othniel from? |
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| What was the name of the girl Othniel wins in fighting against Israel's enemies? |
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| What does the name Cushan-Rishathaim mean? |
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| something like dark-double evil one |
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| Who is the next judge after Othniel? What tribe is he from? |
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| What physical attribute sets Ehud apart from the tribe he comes from? That is, what about him makes him an odd fit in Benjamin? |
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| He is a left-handed member of the tribe whoe name is "son of the right hand." |
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| What principal trait is used to describe Eglon? |
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| He is described as being very fat. |
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| What does Eglon's name mean? How is different than Cushan-Risthaim? |
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| His name means "fat calf." In that sense, he is almost a comic book villain compared to Cushan-Rishathaim. |
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| What kind of humor is used in the Ehud story and his killing of Eglon? |
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| scatological (poop) humor |
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| What was it that caused Ehud to want to kill Eglon so badly? |
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| On his way home, Ehud saw the idols at Gilgal and turned back to kill Eglon. Gilgal was a place of covenant renewal and precious to Israelites. |
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| What keeps Barak from getting all the glory in the deliverance of the nation? |
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| He failed to respond in belief to Deborah's command and asked her to come with him. |
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| Who was Sisera? Who was Jabin?. |
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| Sisera was the head of the Canaanite army. Jabin was the King of the Canaanites. |
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| What was the name of the Small river that washed Sisera's army away? |
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| Who was the next judge after Deborah and Barak? What tribe was he from? Who was the enemy? |
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| Gideon from the tribe of Mannasseh fought against the Midianites. |
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| What ironic (maybe even sarcastic thing) does the Angel of the Lord say to Gideon when Gideon is hiding in the winepress threshing grain? |
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| Behold thou mighty man of valor! |
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| Why was Gideon hiding in the winepress to thresh grain? |
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| He was hiding there because the Midianites were scouring the land like locusts eating and stealing everything they could get their hands on. |
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| What did the Lord command Gideon to do after their first meeting? |
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| He commanded him to tear down an altar to Baal and the Asherah pole beside it and offer a bull to God on a reconstructed altar. |
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| After this event, Gideon's father renamed him. What did he call him and what did it mean? |
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| Jerubbaal...he that picks a fight with Baal |
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| Gideon's actions eventually led to a fight with the Midianites. What strange command did God give Gideon before the battle? Explain. |
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| He told him to reduce his troops from 32,000 to 300. He first sent home all those afraid to fight and then further reduced the number by how they drank water. |
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| Gideon seemed to struggle with doubt. What signs did the Lord provide to allay his doubt? |
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| (1) He burned up the food on the rock. (2) He did the two things (wet/dry) with the fleece. (3) He let Gideon hear a dream of one of the Midianites. |
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| What did Gideon request from the two towns of Succoth and Penuael? |
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| He requested bread and provisions from them to help him in his fight with the fleeing Midianites. |
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| What did Gideon's men want to do for Gideon after their great battle? Did he allow them to do what they wanted? |
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| They wanted to make him king. No. |
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| What did Gideon want instead of being made king? What did he do with what his people gave him? |
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| He wanted the golden earrings of the Midianites. He made agolden ephod out of the gold. |
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| The text says Gideon had 70 sons. What was the significance of that? |
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| It means he had a harem of women and was living much like an eastern king. He was kingin everything but name. |
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| After Gideon, the story in judges turns to Abimelech? Who was he? What does his name mean? |
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| He was one of Gideon's sons. His name means, "My father is king." |
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| What dreadful thing did Abimelech do? What city did he appeal to to help him take the kingdom? |
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| He killed his brothers. Shechem financed the whole affair. |
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| Did any of his brothers escape? Who? What did he do after he escaped? |
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| Yes, Jotham escaped. He climbed Mount Gerizim and shouted down a parable to the men of Shechem. |
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| Who did the bramble represent in Jotham's parable? |
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| It represented his scumbag brother Abimelech. |
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| What line of Jotham's parable about serving the bramble actually came true? |
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| The line about, "If you will serve me fine, but if not may fire come out of the bramble and burn you up." Abimelech burned up a tower with Israelites in it. |
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| What was the significance of Jotham telling his parable from top of Mount Gerizim? |
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| Gerizim along with Ebal was one of the two mountains from which the people spoke the blessings and cursing when they came into the land. |
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| A woman drops a millstone on his head. He is mortally wounded and has his servant kill him so he can avoid being killed by a woman. |
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| What other biblical character does Abimelech's death foreshadow? |
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| How is Jephthah initially introduced in Judges? |
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| He is introduced as a mighty warror and the son of a prostitute. |
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| At the beginning of the Jephthah story, he is driven away, but at the end his people ask him to come back. Why? What does he demand in return? |
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| They drive him away because he is illegitimate. They ask him to come back to save them. He demands they make him their permanent leader. They agree. |
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| How does Jephthah show he knows something about the Law of God and the history of his people? |
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| He shows that when he responds to the Ammonites that the Jews had not taken their land. He actually knows the history of the Old Testament. |
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| What terrible vow does Jephthah make as he goes off to battle? |
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| He vows to offer up in sacrifice the first thing that comes out of his house when he returns home in victory. |
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| Does Jephthah fulfill his vow? |
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| What is the significance of the word "Shibboleth?" |
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| It was the word used at the Fords of the Jordan River to determine whether those crossing were from Gilead or Ephraim. Those from Ephraim couldn't say "Shibboleth" and were killed. |
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| What announcement does the Angel of the Lord make to Manoah's wife? |
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| He announces that she is going to have a son and that he is to be raised a Nazirite. |
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| What are the restrictions imposed on a Nazirite in Numbers 6? |
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(1) They are to eat nothing from the grapevine
(2) They ar enot permitted to touch anything dead
(3) They were not to cut their hair |
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| What is the first bit of dialogue Samson utters? |
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| He tells his parents, "I have seem a Philistine woman at Timnah. Get her for me. She is right in my eyes." |
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| Why is his first bit of his dialogue important? |
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| Typically a character's first bit of dialogue reveals their character. In Samson's case, it shows he is driven by a sort of impulsive lust. |
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| How do the Philistines solve Samson's riddle? |
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| They threaten his fiance with burning down her house. |
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| What does Samson do when he finds out his fiance has been given to someone else? |
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| He ties a bunch of foxes together and then ties fiery torch to them and turns them loose on the Philistine countryside burning everything up. |
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| What tribe are the men from that come to Samson to take him and turn him over to the Philistines? |
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| The men are from the Tribe of Judah. |
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| What does Samson do to the Philistines after the men of Judah turn them over to him? |
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| He kills a 1,000 of them using the fresh jawbone of an ass. |
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| In chapter 16, Samson falls in love with a women from the Valley of Sorek. What was her name? |
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| What do the Philistines offer Delilah to find out the secret of Samson's strength? |
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| They offer her 1,100 pieces of silver. |
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| How many times does Delilah beg Samson to tell him the secret of his strength before he gives in and tells her? |
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| She asks him four times to tell her his secret. He finally tells her the fourth time she asks. |
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| What do the Philistines do to Samson after Delilah cuts his hair and they capture him? |
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| They gouge out his eyes and make him grind grain like a donkey. |
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| How many Philistines does Samson kill when he pulls down the pillars of Dagon's temple? |
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| How does the first of the two endings of the Book of Judges start off? |
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| It starts off with an Israelite man named Micah admitting to his mother that he stole her 1,100 pieces of silver. |
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| Why does Micah confess to the theft? |
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| He does so because his mom cursed whoever took her silver. |
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| What does Micah's mom do when he returns the silver? |
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| In gratitude to God, she takes a portion of the silver (200 pieces) and build a silver idol and image |
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| Hows does Micah add to the image his mom had made? |
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| He adds and ephod makes a shrine for the image and adds an ephod and even makes one of his sons a priest. |
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In polygamous societies a concubine is a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives.
A "B-team" wife. |
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| Why does the author have the Levite and his concubine stay so long before leaving to go back home? |
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| 2 reasons: (1) build tension in the story, (2) to have them on the road late so they'll get stuck in Gibeah |
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| In whose territory was Jerusalem? In whose territory was Benjamin? |
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Jerusalem was in Judah.
Gibeah was in Benjamin. |
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| Who takes them into his house in Gibeah? Why? |
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| An old man coming in from the field takes thenm in in Gibeah. He does so because he knows it is dangerous. |
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| To what other OT story does this story alude? |
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| It alludes to the story of the two angels visiting Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. |
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| What does the Levite do after he takes her body home to Ephraim? |
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| He cuts up her body and sends the twelve pieces out to the twelve tribes of Israel. |
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| What do the twelve tribes of Israel do after they receive their pieces of the concubine? |
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| They declare war on Benjamin and seek to snuff the tribe out of existence. |
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| Why does the author want to make Saul's town seem as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah? |
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| He probably does so in some sort of campaign to show the superiority of the House of David over the House of Saul. |
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| What happens to the Tribe of Benjamin after the civil war with the rest of the nation takes place? |
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| They are very nearly wiped out. |
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| What does the rest of the nation want to do after the decimation of Benjamin? |
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| They want to give some of their own daughters as wives so Benjamin can rebuild itself. |
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| What does their stupid vow concerning their daughters remind you of? |
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| It reminds the reader of Jephthah. |
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| In the story of Gibeah, the men of Gibeah remind the reader of the men of another city. What city is that? |
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| What do the men of Israel do to restore the Tribe of Benjamin? |
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They go and kill all of the inhabitants of the city of Jabesh-Gilead except for 400 virgins, and they give them to the men of Benjamin to take as wives and rebuild their tribe. |
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| How many men does that leave from Benjamin without wives? |
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| How does Deuteronomy 28 help the reader to understand the covenantal mindset of the ancient Jews? |
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| It shows how they undertood obedience to be the key to blessing. |
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| How does the Book of Judges end? |
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| In those days there was no king in Israel and everyone did what was right in his own eyes. |
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