Few chapters in the Bible move as fast as this one. Judges 4 packs a war, a prophecy, and a quiet act of courage into twenty-four verses, and this quiz pulls 22 questions from across all of it. Several of them turn on details that are easy to read straight past.
Read each question closely before you settle on an answer, because every wrong option is drawn from the same chapter. Let us see how much of Judges 4 has stayed with you.
Before you begin:
- The Book of Judges Summary by Chapter: a chapter-by-chapter overview that sets Judges 4 in the flow of the whole book.
- Bible Quiz on Judges Chapters 1 to 21: a full-book quiz for when you want to test the entire story of the judges.
Judges 4 Quiz Questions and Answers
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Answer 1: A: Deborah warned Barak that the honour of the journey would not be his, because the Lord would sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Many would assume Barak, the appointed commander, would receive the credit, but the text gives that role to a woman, fulfilled later through Jael.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:9: “for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.”
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Answer 2: B: Jabin commanded nine hundred chariots of iron, the force behind his twenty-year oppression of Israel. The number is repeated when Sisera gathers the same chariots in verse 13, so no smaller figure fits the text.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:3: “for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.”
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Answer 3: D: Though Sisera asked only for a little water, Jael opened a bottle of milk and gave him drink. The request for water is the most natural choice, but the text records that she gave him milk instead.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:19: “And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.”
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Answer 4: C: Barak is named the son of Abinoam, called out of Kedeshnaphtali. Lapidoth appears in the chapter, but he is the husband of Deborah, not the father of Barak.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:6: “And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali.”
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Answer 5: B: Sisera fled to Jael’s tent because there was peace between Jabin and the house of Heber the Kenite. He expected shelter from an ally, not the betrayal that followed; nothing in the text says Jael invited or promised him anything before he arrived.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:17: “for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.”
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Answer 6: E: Jabin king of Canaan reigned in Hazor. Harosheth of the Gentiles is named in the same passage, but that was the dwelling of Sisera his captain, not the seat of Jabin.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:2: “the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor.”
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Answer 7: A: Jael took a tent nail and a hammer and drove the nail into Sisera’s temples while he slept. The sword belonged to the battle against his army in verses 15 and 16; Sisera himself was killed by the nail, not by any blade.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:21: “took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples.”
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Answer 8: D: Deborah is called a prophetess and the wife of Lapidoth. Abinoam appears in the chapter as the father of Barak, not as a husband of Deborah.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:4: “And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.”
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Answer 9: B: God promised to draw Sisera and his chariots to the river Kishon and deliver him into Barak’s hand. Mount Tabor was where Barak gathered his men, but the place of Sisera’s defeat was the Kishon.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:7: “And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army.”
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Answer 10: C: Israel returned to evil after Ehud, the previous deliverer, was dead. Jabin also dies by the end of the chapter, but his death comes as the result of this account, not before it.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:1: “And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.”
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Answer 11: E: Sisera lighted down off his chariot and fled away on his feet once the Lord discomfited his host. His chariot would seem the obvious means of escape, but the text says he abandoned it and ran on foot.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:15: “so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.”
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Answer 12: B: Deborah dwelt under her palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim. The other pairs name real places from the chapter, but only Ramah and Bethel mark the spot where Israel came to her for judgment.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:5: “And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim.”
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Answer 13: A: Israel’s hand prospered and prevailed until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. The chariots were broken in the battle, but the chapter ends with the destruction of Jabin himself, not merely the capture of his equipment.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:24: “prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.”
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Answer 14: D: Barak was told to take ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun. Ephraim is named in the chapter as the region of Deborah’s home, which makes it a believable but wrong addition here.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:6: “take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun.”
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Answer 15: C: When Sisera turned in to her tent, Jael covered him with a mantle. Her welcome looked like shelter, which is why the later killing is so striking; the text records covering, not binding or hiding.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:18: “And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.”
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Answer 16: B: Jabin mightily oppressed Israel for twenty years before they cried to the Lord. Forty and eighty year spans appear elsewhere in Judges, but this oppression is fixed at twenty years.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:3: “and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.”
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Answer 17: E: Heber the Kenite was of the children of Hobab, the father in law of Moses. The text ties Heber to Moses through this family line, not through any military or servant role.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:11: “Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses.”
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Answer 18: A: Sisera told Jael to stand at the door and say “No” if any man asked whether a man was there. His plan was concealment through denial, not a false trail about Barak or his own flight.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:20: “and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.”
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Answer 19: D: Sisera dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles, the place from which he later marched his chariots. Hazor was the seat of Jabin the king, not the home of his captain.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:2: “the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.”
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Answer 20: B: Deborah told Barak to rise, for the Lord had gone out before him to deliver Sisera that very day. Her confidence rested on the Lord’s leading, not on any report that Sisera had already fled.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:14: “Up; for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the Lord gone out before thee?”
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Answer 21: C: When Barak pursued the host to Harosheth, all of Sisera’s army fell by the sword and not a man was left. Barak chased them as far as Harosheth, but the place was the end of the pursuit, not a refuge where any survived.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:16: “and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.”
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Answer 22: E: Barak agreed to go only if Deborah would go with him, and refused to go without her. The ten thousand men were already commanded by God; Barak’s own condition was the presence of Deborah.
KJV Reference: Judges 4:8: “If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.”
