Women of the Bible - Women in
Samson's Life
His mother
What were the Israelites doing? Jdg. 13:1 ___________________________________________________
How long had the Lord delivered the Israelites into the hand of the Philistines? Jdg. 13:1 _____________
What tribe was Manoah from? Jdg. 13:2 ____________________________________________________
What was Manoah's wife's condition? Jdg. 13:2 ______________________________________________
Who appeared to Manoah's wife? Jdg. 13:3 _________________________________________________
What did they Angel of the Lord say would happen? Jdg. 13:3 __________________________________
What was Manoah's wife to refrain from? Jdg. 13:4 __________________________________________
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What was not to come on the child's head? Jdg. 13:5 _________________________________________
What would the child be called from the womb? Jdg. 13:5 _____________________________________
Out of whose hand would the child deliver Israel? Jdg. 13:5 ____________________________________
Who did the woman tell about her encounter? Jdg. 13:6 ______________________________________
How did the woman describe the person she encountered? Jdg. 13:6 ____________________________
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What didn't she ask the person? Jdg. 13:6 __________________________________________________
How long would her child be a Nazirite to God? Jdg. 13:7 ______________________________________
Who did Manoah go to? Jdg. 13:8 _________________________________________________________
Who did Manoah ask God to come send again? Jdg. 13:8 ______________________________________
Why? Jdg. 13:8 ________________________________________________________________________
How did God respond to Manoah? Jdg. 13:9 _________________________________________________
Who came again to the woman in the field? Jdg. 13:9 _________________________________________
Who was not with her? Jdg. 13:9 __________________________________________________________
What did the woman do? Jdg. 13:10 _______________________________________________________
What did she tell her husband? Jdg. 13:10 __________________________________________________
What did Manoah do? Jdg. 13:11 _________________________________________________________
What did he ask the man? Jdg. 13:11 ______________________________________________________
How did the man answer? Jdg. 13:11 ______________________________________________________
What did Manoah want to know? Jdg. 13:12 ________________________________________________
What was the woman to beware or careful of? Jdg. 13:13 ______________________________________
Did the man tell them anything new? Jdg. 13:14 ______________________________________________
What did Manoah want to do for the angel of the Lord? Jdg. 13:15 ______________________________
Would the Angel of the Lord eat Manoah's food? Jdg. 13:16 ____________________________________
Who should the food be offered to? Jdg. 13:16 ______________________________________________
Did Manoah know the one he was talking with was the Angel of the Lord? Jdg. 13:16 _______________
What did Manoah ask? Jdg. 13:17 ________________________________________________________
What was the answer? Jdg. 13:18 ________________________________________________________
What happened when Manoah offered the kid on a rock to the Lord? Jdg. 13:19-20 _________________
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How did Manoah and his wife react? Jdg. 13:20 _____________________________________________
What did Manoah know after the Angel of the Lord no longer appeared? Jdg. 13:21 ________________
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What did Manoah think would happen to them because they had seen God? Jdg. 13:22 _____________
Did his wife agree? Jdg. 13:23 ____________________________________________________________
What was her reasoning? Jdg. 13:23 _______________________________________________________
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Did Manoah's wife bear a son? Jdg. 13:24 ___________________________________________________
What did she name her son? Jdg. 13:24 ____________________________________________________
What did the Lord do to her son? Jdg. 13:24 ________________________________________________
Who moved upon Samson? Jdg. 13:25 _____________________________________________________
Did Samson's mother approve of his choice of a wife? Jdg. 14:1-3 _______________________________
What didn't his mother know? Jdg. 14:4 ____________________________________________________
What was God seeking? Jdg. 14:4 _________________________________________________________
Did she go along with her son's desires? Jdg. 14:5 ____________________________________________
Samson's wife
Where did Samson go? Jdg. 14:1 __________________________________________________________
Who did Samson see? Jdg. 14:1 ___________________________________________________________
Who did Samson tell about the woman in Timnah? Jdg. 14:2 ____________________________________
What did he want his parents to do? Jdg. 14:2 _______________________________________________
Why did Samson want the Philistine woman? Jdg. 14:3 ________________________________________
Who had dominion over Israel at that time? Jdg. 14:4 _________________________________________
Who went to Timnah with Samson? Jdg. 14:5 ________________________________________________
What did Samson meet? Jdg. 14:5 _________________________________________________________
Who came upon Samson? Jdg. 14:6 ________________________________________________________
What did Samson do to the lion? Jdg. 14:6 __________________________________________________
Who did he not tell what he had done? Jdg. 14:6 _____________________________________________
After talking with the Philistine woman, how did Samson feel? Jdg. 14:7 __________________________
When Samson returned to marry the Philistine woman, what did he turn aside to look at? Jdg. 14:8 _____________________________________________________________________________________
What was in the lion's carcass? Jdg. 14:8 ____________________________________________________
What did he do with the honey? Jdg. 14:9 ___________________________________________________
Who else did he give some to? Jdg. 14:9 ____________________________________________________
What didn't Samson tell his parents? Jdg. 14:9 _______________________________________________
What did Samson give? Jdg. 14:10 _________________________________________________________
How many companions came to the feast? Jdg. 14:11 _________________________________________
What did Samson pose to the men? Jdg. 14:12 _______________________________________________
How many days did they have to come up with an answer? Jdg. 14:12 ____________________________
What was the prize? Jdg. 14:12 ___________________________________________________________
What would the men have to pay if they failed? Jdg. 14:13 _____________________________________
Would they hear his riddle? Jdg. 14:13 _____________________________________________________
What was the riddle? Jdg. 14:14 __________________________________________________________
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Who did the men approach to get the answer? Jdg. 14:15 _____________________________________
How was Samson's wife to get the answer to the riddle? Jdg. 14:15 ______________________________
What would happen to her and her father's house if she failed? Jdg. 14:15 ________________________
What did they accuse her of? Jdg. 14:15 ____________________________________________________
What did Samson's wife do to try and get the answer to the riddle? Jdg. 14:16 _____________________
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How did Samson answer her? Jdg. 14:16 ____________________________________________________
How long did Samson's wife weep? Jdg. 14:17 _______________________________________________
When did Samson finally tell her the answer? Jdg. 14:17 _______________________________________
Who did Samson's wife tell the answer to the riddle? Jdg. 14:17 _________________________________
What answer did the men tell Samson? Jdg. 14:18 ____________________________________________
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What did Samson tell the men? Jdg. 14:18 __________________________________________________
Who came upon Samson? Jdg. 14:19 ______________________________________________________
Where did Samson go? Jdg. 14:19 _________________________________________________________
What Samson do? Jdg. 14:19 _____________________________________________________________
What did he do with the garments of the dead men? Jdg. 14:19 _________________________________
What emotion did he have? Jdg. 14:19 _____________________________________________________
Where did he go? Jdg. 14:19 _____________________________________________________________
Who was Samson's wife given to? Jdg. 14:20 ________________________________________________
Who did Samson go to visit at the time of the wheat harvest? Jdg. 15:1 ___________________________
What did Samson bring with him? Jdg. 15:1 _________________________________________________
What did Samson want to do? Jdg. 15:1 ____________________________________________________
Did her father let him? Jdg. 15:1 __________________________________________________________
What had Samson's father-in-law done with Samson's wife? Jdg. 15:2 ____________________________
What did Samson's father-in-law offer Samson? Jdg. 15:2 ______________________________________
What did Samson say he was blameless of? Jdg. 15:3 __________________________________________
What did Samson catch? Jdg. 15:4 _________________________________________________________
What did Samson do with the foxes? Jdg. 15:4 _______________________________________________
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Where did Samson let the burning foxes go? Jdg. 15:5 _________________________________________
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How did the Philistines respond? Jdg. 15:6 __________________________________________________
How did Samson respond? Jdg. 15:7-8 _____________________________________________________
Where did Samson dwell? Jdg. 15:8 _______________________________________________________
Where did the Philistines go and set up camp? Jdg. 15:9 ___________________________________
What did the men of Judah ask the Philistines? Jdg. 15:10 __________________________________
How did the Philistines answer Judah? Jdg. 15:10 _________________________________________
How many men of Judah went to get Samson? Jdg. 15:11 ___________________________________
What did the men ask Samson? Jdg. 15:11 _______________________________________________
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How did Samson answer the men? Jdg. 15:11 _____________________________________________
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Why had the men come to Samson? Jdg. 15:12 ____________________________________________
What did Samson make the men swear? Jdg. 15:12 _________________________________________
Did they agree not to kill Samson themselves? Jdg. 15:13 ____________________________________
What did they bind Samson with? Jdg. 15:13 ______________________________________________
When he came to Lehi, how did the Philistines respond? Jdg. 15:14 ____________________________
Who came upon Samson? Jdg. 15:14 _____________________________________________________
What were the ropes that bound Samson like to him? Jdg. 15:14 _______________________________
Did the ropes hold Samson back? Jdg. 15:14 ________________________________________________
With what did Samson kill a thousand men? Jdg. 15:15-16 _____________________________________
What did Samson call the place? Jdg. 15:17 _________________________________________________
Why did Samson cry out to the Lord? Jdg. 15:18 _____________________________________________
What did God provide for Samson? Jdg. 15:19 _______________________________________________
How did Samson feel after drinking some of the water? Jdg. 15:19 _______________________________
What did Samson name that place? Jdg. 15:19 _______________________________________________
How long did Samson judge Israel? Jdg. 15:20 _______________________________________________
Samson and a harlot
Who did Samson see at Gaza? Jdg. 16:1 ____________________________________________________
What did he do? Jdg. 16:1 _______________________________________________________________
What did the Gazites do when they found out Samson had come? Jdg. 16:2 _______________________
When did the Gazites plan to kill Samson? Jdg. 16:2 ___________________________________________
When did Samson arise? Jdg. 16:3 _________________________________________________________
What did Samson take with him? Jdg. 16:3 __________________________________________________
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Where did he carry what he took? Jdg. 16:3 _________________________________________________
Delilah
Who did Samson fall in love with in the valley of Sorek? Jdg. 16:4 ________________________________
What did the Philistine rulers want Delilah to do? Jdg. 16:5 _____________________________________
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What would the Philistines give Delilah for the information? Jdg. 16:5 ____________________________
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What did Delilah ask Samson? Jdg. 16:6 ____________________________________________________
What did Samson tell her? Jdg. 16:7 _______________________________________________________
What did the lords of the Philistines give Delilah to bind Samson? Jdg. 16:8 _______________________
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Where were men lying in wait? Jdg. 16:9 ___________________________________________________
What did she tell Samson? Jdg. 16:9 _______________________________________________________
What was breaking the seven green or fresh bowstrings like for Samson? Jdg. 16:9 _________________
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Of what did Delilah accuse Samson? Jdg. 16:10 ______________________________________________
What did she ask him again? Jdg. 16:10 ____________________________________________________
What did Samson tell her this time? Jdg. 16:11 _______________________________________________
What did Delilah do? Jdg. 16:12 __________________________________________________________
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What was the result? Jdg. 16:12 __________________________________________________________
What did Delilah accuse Samson of again? Jdg. 16:13 _________________________________________
What did Samson tell Delilah? Jdg. 15:13 ___________________________________________________
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Did this work? Jdg. 15:14 ________________________________________________________________
What did Delilah add to her accusation this time? Jdg. 15:15 ___________________________________
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How often did Delilah pester Samson for the secret of his strength? Jdg. 15:16 ____________________
How vexed was Samson? Jdg. 16:16 _______________________________________________________
What had never touched Samson's head? Jdg. 16:17 __________________________________________
How long had Samson been a Nazarite unto God? Jdg. 16:17 ___________________________________
When would Samson's strength leave him? Jdg. 16:17 ________________________________________
What did Delilah tell the lords of the Philistines Samson had told her? Jdg. 16:18 ___________________
When the lords of the Philistines came, what did they have in their hands? Jdg. 16:18 _______________
After Delilah lulled Samson to sleep what did she call for a man to do? Jdg. 16:19 ___________________
What did having his hair shaved do to Samson? Jdg. 16:19 _____________________________________
What did Delilah say to Samson? Jdg. 16:20 _________________________________________________
What did Samson think would happen? Jdg. 16:20 ____________________________________________
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What didn't Samson realize? Jdg. 16:20 _____________________________________________________
What did the Philistines do to Samson's eyes? Jdg. 16:21 _______________________________________
Where did the Philistines take Samson? Jdg. 16:21 ____________________________________________
With what did the Philistines bind Samson? Jdg. 16:21 _________________________________________
What did Samson do in prison? Jdg. 16:21 __________________________________________________
What started growing again? Jdg. 16:22 ____________________________________________________
Why did the Philistines gather? Jdg. 16:23 __________________________________________________
Who was the Phiistine's god? Jdg. 16:23 ____________________________________________________
Why were the Philistines rejoicing? Jdg. 16:23 _______________________________________________
When the people saw Samson, who did they praise? Jdg. 16:24 _________________________________
When did they call for Samson? Jdg. 16:25 __________________________________________________
What did they want to do with Samson? Jdg. 16:25 ___________________________________________
Where did they set Samson? Jdg. 16:25 ____________________________________________________
What did Samson ask the lad holding his hand to do? Jdg. 16:26 _________________________________
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What was the reason Samson gave for his request? Jdg. 16:26 __________________________________
Who was in the house? Jdg. 16:27 _________________________________________________________
How many were on the roof? Jdg. 16:27 ____________________________________________________
Who did Samson call on? Jdg. 16:28 _______________________________________________________
What did he ask of the Lord? Jdg. 16:28 ____________________________________________________
What did Samson take hold of with his hands? Jdg. 16:29 ______________________________________
What did Samson say? Jdg. 16:30 _________________________________________________________
What did Samson do? Jdg. 16:30 __________________________________________________________
Did Samson slay more in his life or at his death? Jdg. 16:30 _____________________________________
Who came to get Samson's body? Jdg. 16:31 ________________________________________________
Where did they bury Samson? Jdg. 16:31 ___________________________________________________
How long did Samson judge Israel? Jdg. 16:31 _______________________________________________
What was Samson commended for in Heb. 11:32-34 __________________________________________
Which of the women in Samson's life had a positive influence on him? ___________________________
Which of the women in Samson's life had a negative influence on him? ___________________________
What kind of influence do you have on the people in your life? __________________________________
Samson had a weakness for woman, yet the Lord used his weakness to kill many of Israel's enemies. His parents did not recognize Samson's behavior as positive, but the Lord was working through him. Jdg. 14:4
I do not think the Israelites were all that happy with the judge God had chosen either. They were willing to give him up to their enemies. Jdg. 15:11-12
Sometimes we do not understand the behavior of others (spouses, children, politicians) but we need to recognize that God is in control and can work all things together for good. Rom. 8:28