Judges 7 is one of the most precisely narrated chapters in the Old Testament, recording a step-by-step reduction of an army, a nighttime raid unlike any other, and the total collapse of an overwhelming enemy force. This quiz features 22 questions drawn entirely from the chapter text, testing the specific details that make this account one of a kind.
If you know this chapter well, let this quiz put it to the test.
Before you begin:
- The Book of Judges Summary by Chapter: a chapter-by-chapter guide to the whole book of Judges.
- Bible Quiz on Judges Chapter 1-21: test your knowledge across the entire book of Judges.
Judges 7 Quiz Questions and Answers
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Answer 1: D: The men of Ephraim slew Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. Oreb was slain at the rock of Oreb (option A), and a reader who knows one prince often confuses the two locations. The text names each execution site after the prince killed there.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:25 (KJV): “and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb”
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Answer 2: A: Gideon and the hundred men with him arrived at the beginning of the middle watch, and the text adds that the guard had just newly been set. Option B (morning watch) and option D (ending of the middle watch) are close, but the text is exact: it was the start of the middle watch.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:19 (KJV): “came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch”
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Answer 3: E: God’s stated reason was that if too many fought, Israel would credit themselves with the victory, saying their own hand saved them. Option C (lest Gideon be overcome with fear) may seem plausible since fear is mentioned later in the chapter, but the text gives an entirely different reason: the danger is Israel’s pride, not Gideon’s courage.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:2 (KJV): “lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me”
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Answer 4: C: Gideon gave each man a trumpet, an empty pitcher, and a lamp placed within the pitcher.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:16 (KJV): “he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers”
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Answer 5: D: God told Gideon that hearing what the Midianites said would strengthen his hands to go down to the host. The text does not say his fear would vanish, his heart be filled, or that his army would receive any signal. The promise was specific to the effect on his hands.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:11 (KJV): “afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host”
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Answer 6: B: The cake smote the tent so that it fell, and then overturned it so that it lay along the ground. Options A (burned), C (rolled over), D (pierced), and E (broke asunder) each describe a different action, but the text uses smote and overturned.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:13 (KJV): “came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along”
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Answer 7: E: After the proclamation, twenty-two thousand departed and ten thousand remained. Option A (three hundred) is the number selected later at the water test, not the intermediate remainder. Option C (twenty-two thousand) is the number who left, not who stayed.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:3 (KJV): “there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand”
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Answer 8: A: The three hundred stood every man in his place. They did not charge or pursue. God set the Midianites’ swords against each other, causing the rout. The pursuit (option D) came later, carried out by the men of Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:21 (KJV): “And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled”
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Answer 9: D: The chapter opens by stating that Jerubbaal is Gideon, giving both names together in the first verse. Joash (option B) is Gideon’s father, not another name for Gideon. Phurah (option A) is Gideon’s servant. Oreb and Zeeb (options C and E) are princes of Midian.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:1 (KJV): “Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon”
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Answer 10: E: The chapter names three groups in the valley: the Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the children of the east. The Philistines appear frequently elsewhere in Judges but are not among the groups named in verse 12. The Canaanites, Hittites, and Moabites are also absent from this verse.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:12 (KJV): “the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude”
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Answer 11: C: God told Gideon that if he feared going down alone, he should take his servant Phurah. Joash (option D) is Gideon’s father. Oreb and Zeeb (options A and B) are princes of Midian. Jerubbaal (option E) is another name for Gideon himself.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:10 (KJV): “go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host”
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Answer 12: A: God declared he would save Israel by the three hundred men who lapped at the water. Option B (ten thousand) refers to the group still present before the water test, nearly all of whom were then sent away. Option D inverts the chapter: the twenty-two thousand departed because they were fearful, not fearless.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:7 (KJV): “By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand”
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Answer 13: B: The text states the companies held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands. Option A (right hand) reverses the assignment. Option E (within their pitchers) describes where the lamps were stored before the pitchers were broken, not during the attack itself.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:20 (KJV): “held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal”
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Answer 14: D: The fellow interpreted the dream as the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:14 (KJV): “This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel”
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Answer 15: E: The text says the people took victuals in their hands, and their trumpets. Options A, B, and C draw from the attack preparation items in verse 16: the pitchers and lamps distributed later. Option C (lamps and trumpets) is the closest alternative, since trumpets appear in both verse 8 and verse 16, but lamps were only distributed in verse 16.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:8 (KJV): “So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets”
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Answer 16: A: The men of Israel gathered from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh to pursue the Midianites. Ephraim (option B) was called separately by Gideon’s messengers to secure the waters, not named among the pursuing tribes in verse 23. The other options each substitute tribe names not mentioned in this chapter.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:23 (KJV): “the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh”
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Answer 17: C: Gideon and his army camped beside the well of Harod, with the Midianites to the north of them by the hill of Moreh. Option D (the spring of Jezreel) may seem plausible since the valley of Jezreel is associated with battles in this region, but verse 1 names the well of Harod as Israel’s camp.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:1 (KJV): “pitched beside the well of Harod”
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Answer 18: E: Gideon’s first response was to worship God, and then he returned to the camp of Israel to give the command to arise. The text does not say he wept (option C), called to Phurah (option B), or armed anyone (option A) before returning. Worship came first.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:15 (KJV): “he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian”
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Answer 19: B: The three hundred lapped the water, putting their hand to their mouth, as a dog laps. Options A and D describe bowing or kneeling, which is what the majority who were not chosen did. The hand-to-mouth lapping posture is precisely what distinguished the three hundred from the rest.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:6 (KJV): “the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men”
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Answer 20: A: The Midianites were on the north side of Gideon’s camp, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. Option E substitutes mount Gilead for the hill of Moreh; Gilead is where the fearful were told to return from in verse 3, not the Midianite position. Option D places the Midianites at the well of Harod, which was Israel’s own camp.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:1 (KJV): “the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley”
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Answer 21: D: Gideon commanded the men to cry “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon” on every side of the camp. None of the other options match the text. Option A substitutes “victory” for “sword,” and option B echoes the phrasing of verse 15 but was not the commanded battle cry.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:18 (KJV): “and say, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon”
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Answer 22: C: God gave the command that same night, after the three hundred had been selected and the rest of Israel sent home. Option D says before the water test, but the test had already concluded. Option E refers to the arming in verse 16, which took place after this night command, not before.
KJV Reference: Judges 7:9 (KJV): “And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand”
