7 - Gideon

Ninety eight verses in Judges 6-8 tell the story of Gideon. Would he be considered a major or minor judge?

• major

• minor

The Midianites did not take over Israel and set up a government to rule it. Instead, they visited once a year during

• Passover.

• tribute.

• harvest.

To hide from the Midianites, the Israelites

• made dens

• hid in caves

• fled to the mountains

• threshed their grain in secret

So many Midianites descended upon Israel, they are compared to

• camels

• locusts

• ants

• grains of sand

The Midianites would take

• the crops

• the animals

The Israelites cried out to the Lord for help when they were

• sad

• starving

• tired

• scared

God's angel appeared to Gideon when he was threshing wheat in a __________ in order to hide it from the Midianites.

• field

• winepress

• cellar

• cave

The Midianites enlisted ____________ as allies to attack Israel.

• the Amalekites

• the Moabites

• people of the east

• the Amorites

When the people cried out to the Lord, he sent a prophet to remind them that He had delivered them from oppression in Egypt but they were in this situation again because of their own ____________.

Gideon's first assignment was to

• thresh wheat

• tear down Baal's altar and the Asherah pole

• build a new altar

• offer a sacrifice on the Lord's altar