Judges 7 Quiz — Gideon's 300 — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.How many men did Gideon have at first?
- A. Ten thousand
- B. Twenty-two thousand
- C. Thirty-two thousand ✓
- D. Fifty thousand
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)
Q2.Why did the LORD say Gideon had too many men?
- A. Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me ✓
- B. They would eat too much food
- C. They were too noisy
- D. They could not all fit in the camp
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)
Q3.How many men went home because they were afraid?
- A. Ten thousand
- B. Twenty-two thousand ✓
- C. Thirty-two thousand
- D. None
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)
Q4.How did the LORD further reduce the army?
- A. By the way they drank water at the river ✓
- B. By their age
- C. By their height
- D. By their weapons
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)
Q5.How many men lapped water like a dog from their hand?
- A. One hundred
- B. Three hundred ✓
- C. Five hundred
- D. Ten thousand
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)
Q6.What did the LORD tell Gideon to do with the three hundred?
- A. Go down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand ✓
- B. Wait for reinforcements
- C. Surrender
- D. Make peace
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)
Q7.What did Gideon hear in the enemy camp at night?
- A. A man telling a dream of a cake of barley bread tumbling into the host ✓
- B. Singing and rejoicing
- C. Prayers to Baal
- D. A call to battle
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)
Q8.What did Gideon and his men carry into battle?
- A. Swords and spears
- B. Trumpets, empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers ✓
- C. Shields and bows
- D. Chariots and horses
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)
Q9.What did Gideon's men shout?
- A. The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon ✓
- B. Victory to Israel
- C. Death to Midian
- D. The LORD is risen
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)
Q10.What happened when the pitchers were broken and the trumpets blown?
- A. The Midianites fled, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow ✓
- B. The ground shook
- C. Fire fell from heaven
- D. A flood came
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)