Judges 7 Quiz — Gideon's 300

Answer key for Judges 7 Quiz — Gideon's 300

1. Q1: How many men did Gideon have at first? Answer: Thirty-two thousand. Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands. (Judges 7:1-2) Reference: Judges 7:1 (KJV).
2. Q2: Why did the LORD say Gideon had too many men? Answer: Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. (Judges 7:2) Reference: Judges 7:2 (KJV).
3. Q3: How many men went home because they were afraid? Answer: Twenty-two thousand. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. (Judges 7:3) Reference: Judges 7:3 (KJV).
4. Q4: How did the LORD further reduce the army? Answer: By the way they drank water at the river. So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. (Judges 7:5) Reference: Judges 7:5 (KJV).
5. Q5: How many men lapped water like a dog from their hand? Answer: Three hundred. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. (Judges 7:6) Reference: Judges 7:6 (KJV).
6. Q6: What did the LORD tell Gideon to do with the three hundred? Answer: Go down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place. (Judges 7:7) Reference: Judges 7:7 (KJV).
7. Q7: What did Gideon hear in the enemy camp at night? Answer: A man telling a dream of a cake of barley bread tumbling into the host. And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. (Judges 7:13) Reference: Judges 7:13 (KJV).
8. Q8: What did Gideon and his men carry into battle? Answer: Trumpets, empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. (Judges 7:16) Reference: Judges 7:16 (KJV).
9. Q9: What did Gideon's men shout? Answer: The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. (Judges 7:18) Reference: Judges 7:18 (KJV).
10. Q10: What happened when the pitchers were broken and the trumpets blown? Answer: The Midianites fled, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow. (Judges 7:20-22) Reference: Judges 7:22 (KJV).