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Judges 16
Study of the book of Judges
Question | Answer |
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Where did Samson go to see a harlot? | Gaza - 16:1 |
What did the Philistines plan when they heard Samson was in Gaza? | They laid in wait overnight and were planning on killing him in the morning - 16:2 |
When did Samson wake up and leave Gaza? | At midnight - 16:3 |
How did Samson get out of town when the gates were closed? | He took the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of a hill near Hebron - 16:3 |
Who was Delilah? | A woman of the valley of Sorek who Samson loved - 16:4 |
Who asked Delilah to find the source of Samson's strength? The lords of the Philistines - 16:5 | The Lords of the Philistines - 16:5 |
What was Delilah offered to reveal the source of Samson's strength? | Eleven Hundred pieces of silver from each of them - 16:5 |
What was the first answer Samson gave to Delilah about his strength? | If they would bind him with seven green withs (fresh cords) that had never been dried that he would be as weak as other men - 16:7 |
Who gave Delilah the seven green withs to tie Samson up with? | The lords of the Philistines - 16:8 |
As the men were hiding in her chamber and Delilah had tied Samson up what happened when she cried unto him that the Philistines were upon him? | She broke the seven green withs like a thread of tow is broken when it touches the fire - 16:9 |
What was the second thing Samson told Delilah was able to keep him bound? | New ropes that had never been used - 16:11 |
What was the third thing Samson told Delilah was able to keep him bound? | Weave the seven locks of his head with the web - 16:13 |
What did Samson do when he was awakened the third time? | He went away with the pin of the beam and wit the web - 16:14 |
What was the reason Delilah kept giving Samson when he gave her the wrong reasons for his strength? | How can you say you love me when thine heart is not with me - 16:15 |
What happened to Samson, when Delilah continued to press him daily about the source of his strength? | His soul became vexed unto death - 16:16 |
What did Samson finally tell Delilah about the source of his strength? | His hair had never been cut with a razor because he was a Nazarite - 16:17 |
What did Delilah do when she realized that Samson had told her all his heart about the source of his strength? | She told the Lords of the Philistines she knew the source of his strength - 16:18 |
What did the lords of the Philistines do when she assured them she knew the source of his strength? | They each one gave her the money they had promised her - 16:18 |
How did Delilah have Samson's hair cut? | She had him sleep on her knees (his head in her lap) and had a man come in and cut the locks of his hair - 16:19 |
After his hair had been cut, what did Delilah say to Samson? | The Philistines be upon thee - 16:20 |
What did Samson say after his hair was cut and Delilah said the Philistines were upon him? | I will go out as at other times and shake myself - 16:20 |
What did Samson not realize had happened to his strength? | He knew not that the Lord had departed from him - 16:20 |
What did the Philistines do to Samson after they captured him? | They put out his eyes, brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of brass and he did grind in the prison house - 16:21 |
What happened to Samson's hair after he was put in the prison? | It began to grow again - 16:22 |
Why did the lords of the Philistines have a feast? | To offer a sacrifice to their god Dagon and to rejoice for they said our god hath delivered Samson into our hand - 16:23 |
What did the people do when they saw Samson in chains and with no eyes? | They praised their god - 16:24 |
What did the people ask to happen to Samson? | To be brought forth to make sport (make fun of) of him - 16:25 |
Where was Samson brought to so the people could see him? | Between the pillars - 16:25 |
Who did Samson ask to let him feel the pillars? | The lad that led him there - 16:26 |
Why did Samson tell the lad he wanted to feel the pillars? | So he could lean upon them - 16:26 |
How many people were upon the roof? | About three thousand - 16:27 |
Who did Samson call upon for the renewal of his strength? | God - 16:28 |
Why did Samson want God to renew his strength? | To avenge the Philistines for his two eyes - 16:28 |
What did Samson ask God to do to him? | Let him die with the Philistines - 16:30 |
How many died when the pillars collapsed? | More than were they which he slew in his life - 16:30 |
Where was Samson buried? | Between Zorah and Eshtaol where his father was buried - 16:31 |
How long had Samson judged Israel? | Twenty Years - 16:31 |