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   Q: What is Glean?  A: Gleaning picks seeds and food Q; Why was Ruth in the fields?  A: Ruth was in the fields to glean gathering leftover grain for herself and her mother in law Naomi because they were poor and needed food.

        Q: What does Adam's name mean? A: Man  Q: From which part of Adam's body did God make Eve? A:Rib Q: What tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat from? A: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.   Q: What animal tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit?  A: Snake  Q: What kind of fruit did Adam and Eve eat ? A: The Bible doesn't say. Q: When Adam and Eve realized they were naked, what did they use to cover themselves?  A: Fig loaves

   Q: Why did Elimelech move his family to Moab?  A: Elimelech moved his family from Bethlehem to escape a severe famine in Judah seeking food and survival as Bethlehem.  Q: Why do you think Ruth stayed with Naomi? A: Ruth stayed with Naomi out of profound love loyalty and a transformative faith.

    Q:Who made the world? A: God made the world.  Q: How did God make things?  A: He spoke them into being like saying let there be light.  Q: What did God make on the first day? A: Light and darkness. Q: What did God make on the second day?  A: The sky  Q:What did God make on the third day?  A: The dry land and plants flowers and trees.  Q:What did God make on the fifth and sixth days?  A: Birds sea animals land animals and people. Q: How many days did it take God to make everything?  A: Six days.

  Q: Why did God create the Earth? A: Primarily to display  His own glory goodness love and power not out of need, however, as an overflow of His fullness allowing His creation especially humans to know love and praise Him.  Q: How did God create the Earth and everything on it?  A: Through His powerful word saying Let there be (e.g. light land plants creatures.) He created it from nothing. Q: Did God create the Earth in six literal 24-hour days?  A: Bibilical interpretions differ; some believe literal days supported by Hebrew text and genealogies for a young -6,000 years old while others days as long unspecified periods acknowledging God's power to create instantly.

   Q:Who did the Philistines think had given them Samson? A: The Philistines believed their god, Dagon, had given them Samson as a trophy and enemy celebrating their victory and attributing his capture to Dagon's superior power especially after his  strength failed following Delilah's  betrayal marking a great triumph for their false  gods.  Q: Did God answer Samson's prayer?  Yes, God answered Samson's  final prayer.

   Q: What was the secret of Samson's strength his long hair or his to God?  A: Samson's strength came from God not his hair but his long uncut hair was the visible sign of his Nazirite vow a symbol of dedication and covenant with God. Q: What did the Philistine do to Samson?  A:Samson loses his strength and he is captured by the Philistines who blind him by gounging out his eyes.

     Q: Why did Delilah want to know the secret of Samson's strength? A: Delilah wanted to know Samson's secret of strength because Philistine rulers bribed her with silver to discover it so they could subdue and capture him, her powerful enemy, for their own gain, despite Samson's love for her and repeated warnings that she was trying to betray  him. Q: Do  you think she loved Samson? A: No, I don't think she didn't really love Samson.

  Q: Why did the Philistines attack Judah? A: Philistine attacks on Judah occured due to a mix of factors: a desire for control economic motive (plunder) and specific conflicts like retaliation for Samson's action or challenges to newly unified Israel under kings like David. Q: Who was the woman Samson fell in love with? A: Samson fell in love with Delilah.

   Q: How did the Philistines learn the answer to   Samson's riddle? A: The  Philistines learned the answer to Samson's riddle by pressuring and threatening Samson's new wife, who in turn nagged Samson until he revealed the secret on the seventh day  of their wedding feast.  Q: How did Samson get the clothes to give to the Philistine? A: Samson got the clothes by giving down to the Philistine city of Ashkelon where the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him to kill thirty men strip them of their belongings and take their clothes  to pay the bet he'd made with his  wedding companions.

   Q: Where did Samson get the strength to kill the lion? A: Samson got his strength to the lion the Spirit of the Lord rushing upon him giving him supernormal power to the lion apart with his bare hands as easily as a young goat.                            Q: What did he find in the dead lion's body? A: The figure is Samson who returning to a lion's carcass he had previously killed a swarm of bees and honey.

   Q: Who made the world? A: God Q: Who was the first man?  A:Adam Q: Who was the first woman? A:  Eve Q: What did God use to make Eve? A: Adam's rib.

  Q: What are different about Samson? A:Preordained from Birth Unlike most of the other judges, Samson's coming to antique in that it was divinely announced before his birth. Q: Why were his parents unhappy about Samson  his choice for a wife?  A: Samson's parents were unhappy because marrying a Philistine woman was foremen by God's law for Israelites.

   Q: What did Jephthah promise God if  he won the battle?  A:Jephthah promised God that  if he won the battle against the Ammonites, the first thing to come out of his house to greet  him upon his peaceful return would be offered as a burnt offering.   Q: Who greatest Jephthah when he came home?  A:Jephthah was greeted on his return home by his only child his daughter who came out dancing and playing a tambourine in celebration of his victory.

  Q: What did Gideon's army about? A:  Gideon's army was about defeating the large Midianite army with God's help not human strength. Q: Why did Gideon refuse in the king? A: Gideon refused kingship because he recognized God's Israel's  true ruler.

    Q: What is the name Deborah traditionally said to mean?  A: Bee Q: During what time period did Deborah judge Israel?  A: Roughly at the dividing line Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the Near East.

    Q: Why did God send away some of Gideon's army? A:God sent away most of Gideon's army  to ensure the victory over the meionites was clearly attributed to Him not human strength, preventing Israel from boasting and demonstrating that reliance on God not numbers brings victory. Q: How many soldiers were in Gideon's army?  A: Gideon's army was ultimately reduced to just 300 men by God's command, though he initally gathered around 32,0000 soldiers.

   Q:Who was Gideon's father? A: Gideon's father was Joash. Q: For the first the angel appeared to Gideon, what did it say to him?  A: The Lord is with you you mighty man of valor.   Q: Why was Gideon initially hesitant to lead the Israelites? A:He was from the weakest clan in Manasseh.  Q:What was Gideon doing when the angel of the Lord appeared to him?  A: Threshing wheat in a winepress.

    Q: Where was Jesus born? A: Bethlehem Q: How many disciples did Jesus have? A: 12.  Q: What was Jesus' profession? A: Carpenter. Q: What did Jesus turn into wine? A: Water.

    Q: How did Gideon know that God was with him? A: Gideon knew God was with him through direct angelic encounters and specific signs initially doubting because of Israel's suffering but gradually trusting after God promised. Q: Was God angry or patient with Gideon? A: God was patient with Gideon.

    Q: What city was Jesus born in? A: Bethlehem Q: Who was the mother of Jesus? A: Mary  Q: Who baptized Jesus? A: John the Baptist. 

      Q:  What  did Joshua say to the leaders of Israel? A: Joshua told the leaders of Israel as he was old to remember God's faithfulness in conquering their enemies. Q: Why did he set up  the stone?  A: He set up a stone as a memorial to remember God help.

   Q: Joseph is favored by his father because: A: He is the son of Jacob's true love this also mirrors how Jacob was raised. Q: Seems to show he is unware of how much his brothers despise him:                       A: Joseph's dreams about his brothers bowing down before him and then also his parents. Q: Joseph's brothers:  A: Decide to kill him and then have dinner. No big deal. Although they later sell slavery instead. Q: Potiphar's wife: A: Joseph rises to the head of Potiphar's household only to have Potiphar's wife try to seduce him.

    Q:What is Passover (Pesach)?  A: A major Jewish holiday celebrating God freeing the  Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt as reconted in the Torah.  Q:What does the name mean?  A: It refers to the tenth plaue where God passed over the homes of Israelites marked with lamb's blood sparing their firstborn.  Q: When is it celebrated?  A:In the spring, tied to the Hebrew month of Nisan marking the start of their journey to freedom.

    Q: Why did Israel suffer? A: Israel has suffered due to a combination of factors, including internal dissidence and idolatry described in the Bible. Q: Who did Gideon see sitting by an oak tree?  A:Gideon saw the Angel of the Lord sitting under an oak tree in Ophrah.