JUDGES.
PREFACE.
i. 1-iii. 6.
§ I.
JUDAH AND
SIMEON
DEFEATED
ADONI-BEZEK.
i. 1-8.
§ II.
OTHER
CONQUESTS OF
SAME
TRIBE.
i. 9-20.
§ III.
EXPLOITS AND
FAILURES OF
OTHER
TRIBES.
i. 21-36.
§ IV.
ISRAEL
REBUKED BY AN
ANGEL.
ii. 1-5.
§ V.
DEATH OF
JOSHUA AND
CONDUCT OF
HIS
GENERATION.
ii. 6-10.
- In what sense did they serve God?
7, cf. 2.
- Exact site of Joshua's grave?
9.
§ VI.
CONDUCT OF
SUBSEQUENT
GENERATIONS.
ii. 11-23.
- God's purpose in leaving Canaanites?
21-23.
§ VII.
THE
NATIONS
THAT
WERE
LEFT.
iii. 1-6.
- In
verse 2
read, "that he might know," etc., cf.
4.
- Connection of intermarriage with idolatry?
6.
HISTORY OF THE JUDGES.
iii. 7-xvi. 31.
§ I.
THE
CAREER OF
OTHNIEL.
iii. 7-11.
- Where were Baalim?
iii. 7.
- For "groves" read wooden images.
[The word groves is, or the words wooden images are,
not here in here in R. V.]
7.
- At what period was this?
9.
- What were Ashtaroth?
7.
§ II.
CAREER OF
EHUD.
iii. 12-30.
- Extent of this oppression?
13.
- Advantage of being left-handed?
15, cf. 21.
- What tribes followed Ehud?
27, cf. 15.
§ III.
CAREER OF
SHAMGAR.
iii. 31.
- In what time the slaying?
- In what part of the land? [138]
§ IV.
CAREER OF
DEBORAH AND
BARAK.
iv. 1-v. 31.
1. The Sin and Oppression.
iv. 1-3.
2. Deborah Calls Out an Army.
4-11.
- Why a woman in authority.
4.
- What judging, and where?
5.
- Why of Naphtali and Zebulun?
6.
- Where the Kishon and mount Tabor?
7, cf. 12.
- Whence had Heber come?
11, cf. i. 16.
3. Barak's Victory and Death of Sisera.
12-24.
- Why flee on foot?
15.
- Jael's motive?
17, 11.
4. The Song of Deborah.
v. 1-31.
- Dangers in days of Shamgar?
6, 11.
- The curse of Meroz?
23.
- Picture of the mother of Sisera.
28-30.
§ V.
CAREER OF
GIDEON.
vi. 1-viii. 32.
1. The Midianite Oppression.
vi. 1-6.
- Who with the Midianites?
3.
2. The People Rebuked by a Prophet.
7-10.
3. Gideon Selected as a Deliverer.
11-24.
- Where Ophrah?
11, 15.
- Why by the winepress?
11.
- Purpose of asking for a sign?
17.
- Design of the altar?
24.
4. The Altar of Baal and the Wooden Idol Destroyed.
25-32.
- How the altars distinguished?
25, 26.
- Why suspect Gideon? [139]
29.
- What opened the eyes of Joash?
31.
- Meaning of Jerubbaal?
32.
5. A Fresh Invasion and Four Tribes Aroused.
33-35.
- Where the valley of Jezreel?
33.
- Who Abiezer?
34.
- Why not Issachar?
35.
6. Gideon Asks Another Sign.
36-40.
- Why wish so many signs? See
15.
7. The Army Diminished.
vii. 1-8.
- Where the spring of Harod, and the hill of Moreh?
1.
- The law observed.
3; Deut. xx. 8.
- To what water?
4.
- Why take those who lapped?
7.
- Read
(verse 8),
"the victuals and trumpet of the people," i. e., of the
nine thousand and seven hundred.
8. Gideon Encouraged by a Soldier's Dream.
9-15.
- Why the interpretation?
13, 14.
9. The Enemy Routed.
16-25.
- Why divide his force?
16.
- Whence the trumpets and pitchers?
16, cf. 8.
- How these articles used?
20.
- What the rock of Oreb and winepress of Zeeb?
25.
10. A Complaint by Ephraim.
viii. 1-3.
- Meaning of Gideon's answer?
11. The Kings Pursued and Captured.
4-12.
12. Succoth and Penuel Punished, and the Kings Put to Death.
13-21.
[140]
13. Remainder of Gideon's Career.
22-32.
- How make an ephod, and why?
27.
- Character of Gideon?
§ VI.
CAREER OF
ABIMELECH.
viii. 33-ix. 57.
1. His Usurpation.
viii. 33-ix. 6.
2. Jotham's Fable.
ix. 7-21.
- Points in the fable?
- Why the olive first?
- How so near and yet escape?
7;
Lands of the Bible, 509.
- This is the oldest fable.
3. The Shechemites Rebel Under Gaal.
22-33.
- How did God send the evil spirit?
22-24.
- The season?
27.
- How tread the grapes?
4. Shechem Captured and Destroyed.
34-45.
5. The Remnant Burned in the Stronghold.
46-49.
6. The Death of Abimelech.
50-57.
- The curse of Jotham.
57, cf. 20.
- Extent of the strife?
- Contrast between father and son?
§ VII.
CAREERS OF
TOLA AND
JAIR.
x. 1-6.
§ VIII.
CAREER OF
JEPHTHAH.
x. 6-xii. 7.
1. Idolatry, Punishment and Repentance.
x. 6-13.
- Comparative extent of idolatry?
- How in that year, eighteen [141]
years?
8.
- Where the worst oppression?
8, 9, 17.
- Why say, "I will save you no more"?
13, 16.
- Why at loss for a leader?
18.
- What Mizpah?
17, cf. Gen. xxxi. 49.
2. Jephthah and His Election.
xi. 1-11.
3. Jephthah Argues with the Ammonites.
12-28.
- Had it been three hundred years?
26.
- Why resort to argument?
- Whence his information?
4. His Vow and Its Execution.
29-40.
5. The Complaint and Punishment of Ephraim.
xii. 1-7.
- Ground of complaint?
- Why not able to pronounce the word?
§ IX.
CAREERS OF
IBZAN,
ELON, AND
ABDON.
xii. 8-15.
- State of affairs indicated?
§ X.
CAREER OF
SAMSON.
xiii. 1-xvi. 31.
1. Oppression by Philistines.
xiii. 1.
2. Account of the Birth of Samson.
2-25.
- Where was Zorah?
2;
Lands of the Bible, 263.
- How a Nazarite?
5, cf. Num. vi. 1-21.
- What right to make an [142]
offering?
- Why fear that they would die?
- How the Spirit of the Lord move him?
25.
3. Samson's Courtship.
xiv. 1-9.
- Where was Timnath?
1:
Lands of the Bible, 294.
- Why would bees hive in the carcase?
8.
- Why not tell his parents?
9.
4. The Marriage Feast and a Riddle.
10-20.
- Why kill the thirty men?
19.
- How did the Spirit of Lord cause this?
19, cf. 4.
5. His Wife Taken from Him and His Revenge.
xv. 1-8.
- Loose notions of marriage.
2.
- How catch the foxes: i. e., jackals?
4.
- Why tail to tail?
4.
- Why burn the woman and her father?
6.
6. He Is Taken and Slays One Thousand Men.
9-20.
7. His Exploit at Gaza.
xvi. 1-3.
- Where Gaza?
- What kind of gate?
8. He Is Betrayed and Captured.
4-21.
- Where the valley of Sorek?
4:
Lands of the Bible, 243.
- Why his strength gone with loss of his hair?
17.
9. The Death of Samson.
22-31.
- How the building constructed?
29, 30.
- How did his brethren get his body?
31.
- Lessons of his career?
(1.) Illustration of heathen marriages.
(2.) Folly of lust and revenge.
(3.) Rebuke of rude desire for strength. [143]
APPENDIX.
xvii. 1-xxi. 25.
§ I.
IMAGE
WORSHIP
ESTABLISHED AT
DAN.
xvii. 1-xviii. 31.
1. Micah's Image.
xvii. 1-13.
- What God represented? and what house?
5, 13.
- Bearing of remark about no king?
6.
- Bearing of this on the date of the book?
- Why the Levite so poor and so easily contented?
9, 10.
2. An Expedition of Spies from Dan.
xviii. 1-10.
3. Micah's Image Stolen and Set Up at Dan.
11-31.
- How expect a stolen god to help them?
- Bearing of
30, 31
on date of book?
§ II.
CIVIL
WAR
AGAINST
BENJAMIN.
xix. 1-xxi. 25.
1. A Levite and His Concubine.
xix. 1-15.
- Evils of concubinage?
2.
- Easy habits of the time?
5-9.
- Distances traveled?
2. Sodom Imitated.
16-30.
3. The Tribes Prepare for War.
xx. 1-11.
- Where Mizpah?
3;
Lands of the Bible, 241.
4. The Criminals Demanded.
12-17.
- Why not surrender them? [144]
5. Israel Twice Defeated.
18-26.
- Why these defeats when God approved?
6. Third Battle, Benjamin Defeated.
27-48.
- At what period was this?
28.
- Phinehas was priest.
7. Regret at Loss of a Tribe.
xxi. 1-7.
- Why the oath?
1.
- Why the question about wives?
7.
8. Wives Obtained from Jabesh-gilead.
8-14.
9. Other Wives Obtained.
15-25.
- What yearly feast?
19.
- Design of the Appendix?
- How were cities and tribes held to account? [145]
REVIEW.
PREFACE.
- What the general character of the first five sections of this book?
- Give the account of Adoni-bezek.
- Give the account of taking Beth-el.
- What rebuke of the tribes for their neglect?
- What the general course of later generations.
HISTORY OF THE JUDGES.
§§ I.-III.
- Who were the first three judges?
- From what oppressors did each deliver Israel?
- Describe the act on which Ehud's success depended.
- What tribes fought under him?
§ IV.
- What was peculiar about the next judgeship?
- What justified a woman in taking this position?
- Describe the defeat of Sisera. 3.
- Give the account of his assassination. 3.
- Recite the graphic passage in the close of Deborah's song. 4.
§ V.
- Against what oppressors did Gideon contend?
- Describe his appointment. 3.
- Describe his first exploit. 4.
- When his army assembled what signs did he ask for, and why? 6.
- Where did the two armies assemble? 7.
- How was Gideon's army reduced? and why? 7.
- By what device did he put the enemy to flight? 9.
- What trouble had he with Ephraim? and how was it settled? 10.
- What with Succoth and Penuel? 10-12.
- What was notable in Gideon's career after the war? 22, 23.
§ VI.
- Who was the next judge, and how did he become [146]
one. 1.
- What the expectation?
- Why disappointed?
- Give the account of Jotham's fable? 2.
- What was the first step toward the overthrow to Abimelech? 3.
- Show the fulfillment of Jotham's fable. 4, 5.
- Describe the death of Abimelech. 6.
§ VIII.
- How did the next apostasy compare with those preceding? 1.
- By whom was the next judge selected, and how? 2.
- What was Jephthah first effort to get rid of the enemy? 3.
- What was his vow and its fulfillment? 4.
- What trouble had he with Ephraim, and why?
- What traits of character exhibited by Jephthah?
- Explain the allusion to him.
Heb. xi. 32-35.
§ IX.
- Who were the next three judges? and for what distinguished?
§ X.
- Describe the birth of Samson? 2.
- Why did he marry a Philistine? 3.
- Why did the Lord allow it?
- How long the marriage feast, and what its principal incident? 4.
- Why did he abandon his wife and then return for her? 4, 5.
- Did he have assistance in burning the fields of the Philistines? 5.
- Why flee to the rock Etam?
- What his purpose in surrendering to the men of Judah? 6.
- What miraculous relief came to him? and why granted?
- Why dare to venture into Gaza? 7.
- By what device was he finally captured? 8.
- Describe his death. 9.
- What the lessons of his career? [147]
APPENDIX.
§ I.
- State the principal facts which led to the establishment of
image worship at Dan.
- How long was that worship kept up? 3.
- What priesthood served in it?
- Where was Dan?
- Give the history of the name.
§ II.
- State the cause of the war between Benjamin and the other tribes.
- Had such crimes become common in Israel?
- What was God's purpose in the first two battles? 5.
- Why did the people weep over the destruction of Benjamin? 7.
- How was the tribe restored?
- Design of this appendix?
- General design of this book?
- Was the political government of this period that provided in the law?
- Trace out the indications of organization. [148]
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