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Crossword Puzzle 3: Chapter 7-9

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ACROSS 3   The second king of Israel who was referred to as a man "after God's own heart"; our textbook said he was king during Israel's "golden years" 7   Mother of Samuel who had made a vow to God that if He would give her a son, she would consecrate that son as a Nazarite 9   The man whom Samuel anointed as Israel's first king 11   Wife of Ahab who promoted the worship of Baal in Israel 14   King of Judah who led religious reforms including removal of Baal altars and Asherah poles; with the Lord's help he sucessfully resisted an Assyrian seige of Jerusalem 16   Bathsheba's son who succeeded his father David as king and then built the Temple in Jerusalem 17   King of Judah about whom our textbook says there was no king who served God more wholeheartedly and with such undivided loyalty; he became king when he was only 8 years old 19   The woman with whom David committed adultery 24   A book covering 350 years of Israel's "Dark Ages;" it takes its name from the warrior heroes who were the central characters in its stories 25   Saul's son who was a close friend with David 27   Assyrian king who forced Israel to pay a large tribute in order to preserve its relative independence 29   Israel's last judge, a priest and the first of the prophets; this man stands between the era of the judges and the era of statehood and kingship

DOWN 1   A biographical sketch of a lady from Moab who was the great-grandmother of King David 2   A non-Israelite who assisted two spies sent to Jericho because she recognized God's power at work among the Israelite 4   The god of a Canaanite fertility religion 5   A priest who had two evil sons 6   The book that tells the stories of entering, possessing and distributing the land as a solemn act of worship 8   David's son who killed his brother in retaliation for the rape of their sister and who tried to wrest the throne from his father 10   Solomon's son who saw the kingdom split apart when he became king upon his father's death 11   First king of the northern 10 tribes who broke away after the death of Solomon 12   Prophet of Yahweh who had a showdown with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah 13   Successor to Elijah who picked up Elijah's "prophet mantle" as he disappeared into the heavens in a fiery chariot 15   Northern king who married a Phoenician king's daughter who was an ardent worshipper of Baal 18   Father of King David 20   Asssyrian king whose seige of Jerusalem was lifted when God intervened in a miraculous way 21   A physically powerful man who was raised as a Nazarite but whose life illustrates the ultimate degeneration of the office of judge 22   King of Judah who was forced to witnesss the murder of his sons by the Babylonians and then he was blinded and taken captive to Babylon 23   The prophet who confronted David about his sin 26   A prophetess-judge who brought deliverance to Israel from oppression 28   A judge of Israel who defeated a far larger Midianite army with only 300 men (pared down from the 32,000 soldiers who originally showed up for the battle)

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