Answers – To Difficult Questions (Judges)

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Judges 1:6 – Isn’t this cruel and unusual?

Judges 1:9 – Is the Lord God omnipotent or not?

Judges 1:12-13 – Why does Caleb give his daughter to marry his brother?

Judges 1:20—Did Caleb kill the sons of Anak or just expel them?

Judges 1:20 – Were the sons of Anak killed or driven out?

Judges 1:28ff—Were the Canaanites destroyed or merely subjugated?

Judges 1:28 – Were the Canaanites utterly destroyed or not?

Judges 2:1 – Who is the captain of the Lord’s host?

Judges 3:20–21—Does the Bible approve of assassinations?

Judges 3:20-26 – Was this knife to the stomach really a message from God?

Judges 4:11 – Who was Moses’ father in law?

Judges 4:21—Was Sisera lying down when Jael killed him, or was he upright as Judges 5:27 seems to indicate?

Judges 4:21 – Does the Bible approve of Jael’s murder of Sisera or not?

Judges 4:21 – Was Sisera lying down or sitting up, when he was killed?

Judges 5:6ff—How can Jael be commended for such a cruel act of murder?

Judges 6:36-40 – Should we offer “fleeces” to God?

Judges 11:26—How long did Israel dwell in Heshbon?

Judges 11:26 – Did Israel occupy the land for 300 years or 410 years?

Judges 11:29 – Does the Bible condone human sacrifice?

Judges 11:29–40—How could God allow Jephthah to offer his daughter up as a burnt offering?

Judges 13:5 – The Nazarite vow?

Judges 14:4—How could God use Samson’s lust after the Philistine girl to accomplish the deliverance of Israel from oppression?

Judges 14:4 – Did God honor Samson’s marriage to this Philistine girl?

Judges 15:4—How could Samson capture 300 foxes?

Judges 16:26–27—If suicide is wrong, why did God bless Samson for doing it?

Judges 16:26-30 – Is suicide right or wrong?

Judges 18:30—How could this book have been written in the time or shortly after the time of the judges?

Judges 21:10 – Why did the Israelites kill the people of Gilead?