With a Donkey's Jawbone
Questions for Study 14

Judges 15:1-20
Memory Verse: 15:16

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I. Three Hundred Foxes (15:1-8)

1. What did Samson decide to do? (1) What bad news did his father-in-law tell him? (2) Why might Samson's father-in-law do this?

2. How does Samson's statement tell us what he really intended? (3) What did he do to inflict heavy damage on Israel's oppressors? (4-5) Was Samson's actions just in the eyes of the Lord? (Heb. 11:32-40)

3. What form of justice did the Philistines enact? (6) How did Samson use it to his cause? (7) Why did he need to stay in a cave? (8)

II. I Have Made Donkey's of Them (15:9-17)

4. Why did the Philistines need to muster an army to capture Samson? (9) How did the Jews respond? (10)

5. Did his fellow Israelites appreciate what he was doing for them? (11) What must have he felt like when they told him their intent? (12) How did their betrayal foreshadow what happened to Jesus? (13; Acts 3:12-15)

6. How did the Lord bless Samson's faith? (14) What miracle took place? (15-16) How does his life of faith agree and differ from ours?

III. Samson's Thirst (15:18-20)

7. What can be learned about Samson's relationship with the Lord through verse 18? What kind of relationship do believer's in Jesus now have? (Eph. 1:3-10) How does our relationship with him grow? (John 6:53-57)

8. How did the Lord answer his prayer? (19) What can be learned?

9. How can the Bible claim Samson lead Israel when they betrayed him to their enemies? (20)