Unit 5 Test Review

After Gideon’s army’s victory, Gideon...

Gideon enrages the townspeople by destroying an altar to Baal that the Israelites built. 

What was the point in God’s asking that Gideon scale down his army? Because 

A Moabite widow, she pledges herself to the God of Israel in order to help a family member. 

The Israelites almost drown when crossing the Jordan River to enter Canaan. 

The theme repeated again and again in the Book of Joshua’s accounts of amazing victories is that

The judges were nobles who also exhibited particularly noble behavior. 

A generous farmer who marries Ruth.

This number of tribes in Israel later became symbolic for Christians as well.  

Ruth has a right to glean in Boaz’s field because 

The Deuteronomic history serves as a self-examination for the Israelites in exile.

The Books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth tell stories about…

The Book of Judges...

A tribal leader through whom God delivers the people from destruction.

Referred to as both a judge and a prophet, this person accompanies Barak in leading an army against Sisera

Nicknamed Jerubbaal, this person leads Israel to victory over the Midianites. 

The biblical books called the Deuteronomic history include 

The biblical writers portrayed the Canaanite prostitute Rahab as an unworthy betrayer at odds with God’s purposes.

The offering of refuge to the persecuted, a practice established by the Israelites that remains a universal custom

The Israelites suffered defeat at Ai.

Because she is a Moabite, Ruth is excluded by a law in Deuteronomy from membership among the Israelite community. 

How does Samson die?

Who from the Book of Judges killed Sisera after offering him hospitality?  

In his farewell, what does Joshua beg of his people?

What did Joshua ask of God when Gibeon was under siege?

She urges her daughters-in-law not to accompany her back to Israel because of the misery that surely awaits them.

A practice in which conquerors destroy everything in a conquered town and take nothing for their own.

The deep peace of God

Joshua represented everything that Israel was supposed to be — completely faithful to God.

 A man consecrated to God from birth and forbidden to cut his hair or consume strong drink.

Known for great strength, this person starts the Israelites’ resistance to the Philistines. 

Stories of brutal warfare in the Book of Joshua are

The purpose of the Book of Ruth was to...

The troops circle the city of Jericho ____________ times on the seventh day, and the walls came down

The Israelites renewed the Covenant here just before Joshua died.